Top EU officials called Monday for action to quell violence in Burundi, after dozens of people were reported to have been killed in the African country in recent days, dpa reported. "We are working in these hours ... to help stop the violence," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told journalists in Brussels ahead of a meeting with the bloc's foreign ministers. "It is urgent that [dialogue in Burundi] starts immediately." "The events of the last hours are rather catastrophic," Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders added. "I hope that, with our colleagues, we will be able to send messages to the African Union and the UN Security Council." "There has to be action, there is much too much violence now in the country," he added.
