Bujumbura - Burundi President Domitien Ndayizeye said on Tuesday that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) had not improved security along their common border, despite an August massacre of Congolese refugees in Burundi.
Ndayizeye visited Nigeria on Monday to discuss the Burundi peace process with Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, especially the issue of elections scheduled for later this year, army integration with former rebels, and the situation on the border between Burundi and DRC.
More than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees were hacked, burned and shot to death at a United Nations refugee camp in western Burundi near its border with Congo in mid-August.
"We informed Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo in his capacity as Chairperson of the African Union (AU) that the DRC has not respected its promises taken during the meeting with Congolese President Joseph Kabila in Dar es Salaam.
"After the massacre of Congolese refugees, Burundi demanded the reorganisation of the administration on the other side of the border, this is not yet done, but also security along the border is not yet improved," Ndayizeye told reporters.
African leaders agreed at a meeting in the Tanzanian commercial capital of Dar es Salaam to take steps to improve security in the region and branded the Hutu Forces for National Liberation (FNL), which claimed the refugee camp massacre as a terrorist organisation.
"Burundi has fulfilled its engagements, we informed President Obasanjo that our border with DRC has been reopened, but DRC border with Burundi is still closed, and for us there is no reason for this," Ndayizeye added.
There was no immediate comment from Congo.