{"id":6236,"date":"2017-06-27T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=6236"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T15:48:11","slug":"michel-kafando-unsg-special-representative-in-burundi-for-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/michel-kafando-unsg-special-representative-in-burundi-for-three-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Michel Kafando, UNSG special representative in Burundi for three days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5660\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5660\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5660\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Michel-Kafando-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Michel Kafando, UNSCG representative visits Burundi \" width=\"433\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Michel-Kafando-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Michel-Kafando-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Michel-Kafando.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michel Kafando, UNSCG representative visits Burundi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Alain Aim\u00e9 Nyamitwe, Minister of Foreign Affairs announces that Michel Kafando, Special Adviser of the UN Secretary General to Burundi, is in Burundi since 27 June for three days. \u201cWe are waiting for his briefing on how we will cooperate and strengthen the relationships between Burundi and the UN\u201d, says Minister Nyamitwe.<\/p>\n<p>He says Michel Kafando will meet government officials including the Head of State. \u201cIt is the first time that he visits Burundi since he was appointed by the UN Secretary General a few months ago. We will listen to him to understand his vision of Burundi,\u201d says Nyamitwe.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs says Burundi government doesn\u2019t have any prejudices about the new UN representative compared to his predecessor, Jamal Benomar. \u201cWe believe that he knows very well Africa and the challenges it is faced with\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Secretary General nominated Michel Kafando, the former chairman of the interim government in Burkina Faso, to replace Jamal Benomar, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the resolution of Burundi conflict<br \/>\nBurundi Government had challenged him accusing him of producing biased reports on Burundi. The UN representatives come to Burundi with a special mission to observe the situation prevailing in the country in order to produce reports that they submit to the UNSG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alain Aim\u00e9 Nyamitwe, Minister of Foreign Affairs announces that Michel Kafando, Special Adviser of the UN Secretary General to Burundi, is in Burundi since 27 June for three days. \u201cWe are waiting for his briefing on how we will cooperate and strengthen the relationships between Burundi and the UN\u201d, says Minister Nyamitwe. He says Michel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[40,1081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6237,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6236\/revisions\/6237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}