{"id":7166,"date":"2017-11-06T21:33:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T21:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=7166"},"modified":"2017-11-07T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T07:36:14","slug":"unsg-special-envoy-to-burundi-attempts-to-resume-inter-burundi-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/unsg-special-envoy-to-burundi-attempts-to-resume-inter-burundi-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"UNSG Special Envoy to Burundi attempts to resume inter-Burundi dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In his visit to Burundi last week, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Michel Kafando, discussed the inter-Burundian dialogue with the Ombudsman. Politicians say he should have met with them as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5660\" style=\"width: 432px\" 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, Special Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Burundi\" width=\"422\" height=\"238\" 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: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michel Kafando, Special Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations in Burundi<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The UNSG Special Envoy to Burundi has just concluded a week-long visit to Burundi during which he met with Alain Aim\u00e9e Nyamitwe, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Burundian Ombudsman, Edouard Nduwimana. According to a statement issued by the Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations in Burundi, the discussion was centered on the inter-Burundian dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>After his meetings with some Burundian authorities, Kafando went to Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania on 3 November to meet the former Tanzanian President William Mukapa, the facilitator in the Burundian conflict. &#8220;They talked about the inter-Burundian dialogue process,&#8221; the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>Kefa Nibizi, Chairman of Frodebu Nyakuri Iragi Rya Ndadaye, says he was disappointed that the UN special envoy did not meet the representatives of political parties concerned by the inter-Burundian dialogue. &#8220;We do not expect much from these talks. The dialogue is over.<\/p>\n<p>We expect that the facilitation team organize a final round to prepare a release on dialogue results, &#8220;says Nibizi. For him, there are no issues to discuss regarding the inter-Burundian dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Tatien Sibomana, member of UPRONA party, says Kafando should have met the political parties to enquire about their opinion on the dialogue process. &#8220;If he wants to resume the dialogue, he has to seek opinions from all parties,&#8221; says Sibomana.<\/p>\n<p>Burundi has plunged into a political crisis since April 2015 when President Pierre Nkurunziza officially announced his candidacy for the presidential elections that he won in July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2016, the Heads of State of East African Community of which Burundi is a member, appointed former Tanzanian President William Benjamin Mkapa to facilitate the Burundi peace talks in order to find a lasting solution to the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>After his visit to Burundi and Tanzania, Kafando will present the report of his mission to the United Nations Security Council on 20 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his visit to Burundi last week, the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Michel Kafando, discussed the inter-Burundian dialogue with the Ombudsman. Politicians say he should have met with them as well. The UNSG Special Envoy to Burundi has just concluded a week-long visit to Burundi during which he met with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[1081,1253],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7167,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7166\/revisions\/7167"}],"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=7166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}