DAR ES SALAAM -- Burundi's new President Domitien Ndayizeye arrived in Dar es Salaam Monday for talks with his Tanzanian counterpart Benjamin Mkapa on political developments in the Central African country, AFP reported.

Ndayizeye held talks in Kampala on Sunday with Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni over the role the East African region can play in keeping the political transition in Burundi on course, Museveni said after those talks.

Ndayizeye, a Hutu, took over the presidency from Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi, on April 30.

The handover was a crucial provision of a 2000 accord signed by Burundi's politicians to distribute power more equitably between the dominant Tutsi minority and large Hutu majority in an effort to end a war that has killed 300,000 people since 1993. On leaving Bujumbura on Sunday, Ndayizeye said the point of his trip to Ugandan and Tanzania was to discuss "relaunching talks on integrating Hutu rebels of the Forces for the Defense of Democracy (FDD) into government."

Integrating Burundi's main Hutu rebel group into the war-ravaged Central African state's Army and government will be a key focus of an imminent regional peace summit, Burundi's Communications Minister and Army spokesman Albert Mbonerane said on Friday.

No date has been set for the proposed summit, which, according to some reports, will be held in Dar es Salaam.

Ndayizeye is also due to travel to Kinshasa for talks with Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila.