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East African leaders gather for Burundi crisis talks

East African leaders gathered Wednesday for a crisis summit meeting hoped to broker a deal to end weeks of deadly violence in Burundi over the president's controversial third term bid.

Foreign ministers from the five-nation East African Community (EAC) -- made up of Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda as well as Burundi -- met in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam on Tuesday, Kenyan Foreign Minster Amina Mohamed said, ahead of the presidential summit later Wednesday.

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