{"id":8442,"date":"2018-04-13T16:39:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8442"},"modified":"2018-04-13T16:39:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T16:39:13","slug":"gabonese-president-visits-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/gabonese-president-visits-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabonese President visits Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Bongo, Gabonese President and Chairman of the Economic Community of Central African States is in Burundi for a one-day-visit, this 13 April. On his arrival at Bujumbura International Airport at around 11:30, he was welcomed by Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8446\" style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8446\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8446\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bongo-et-Nkurunziza-1024x589-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Gabonese President Ali Bongo was welcomed by his Burundi counterpart\" width=\"414\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bongo-et-Nkurunziza-1024x589-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bongo-et-Nkurunziza-1024x589-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bongo-et-Nkurunziza-1024x589.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bongo-et-Nkurunziza-1024x589-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabonese President Ali Bongo was welcomed by his Burundi counterpart<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He says he has visited Burundi within the framework of a tour started in all Central African Countries, members of the economic community to inquiry about the current situation. \u201cWe have talked about the problems the regional community is faced with,\u201d says Gabonese president.<\/p>\n<p>He also says the visit is a result of the discussions held with his counterparts suggesting that the President-in-Office should visit the member states of the community to discuss the problems of the sub-region in general and those of each country in particular. He also says that they talked about bilateral cooperation to promote the development of the sub-region.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the tensions between Burundi and Rwanda, President Ali Bongo says only the dialogue should help find solutions to all the problems. \u201cWe are aware of the situation but as ECCAS often suggests, dialogue should be put forth to resolve all issues,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Concerning the upcoming elections in Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza says they are not included among regional issues. \u201cElections are only a country\u2019s concern,\u201d says President Nkurunziza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Bongo, Gabonese President and Chairman of the Economic Community of Central African States is in Burundi for a one-day-visit, this 13 April. On his arrival at Bujumbura International Airport at around 11:30, he was welcomed by Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza. He says he has visited Burundi within the framework of a tour started in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[108,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442"}],"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=8442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8448,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions\/8448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}