{"id":23550,"date":"2016-02-28T02:28:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T02:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ban-ki-moon-s-visit-gives-hope-to-burundi\/"},"modified":"2016-02-28T02:27:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T02:27:14","slug":"ban-ki-moon-s-visit-gives-hope-to-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ban-ki-moon-s-visit-gives-hope-to-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban Ki-moon&#8217;s visit gives hope to Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A significant change of tack last week saw the United Nations and the African Union make major diplomatic forays into Burundi in a bid to resolve the country\u2019s problems without recourse to military intervention.}<\/p>\n<p>It was this new approach that saw UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon land in Bujumbura last Monday to meet President Pierre Nkurunziza and the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>His objective was to hold talks aimed at ending a 10-month-old crisis that has hit Burundi hard. <\/p>\n<p>During his tour, the UN boss met government and opposition leaders before holding talks with Nkurunziza on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ban said all sides had agreed to \u201cinclusive dialogue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurundi leaders must be ready to summon the courage and confidence that will make a credible political process possible,\u201d Ban said before leaving on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>AFRICAN DELEGATION<\/p>\n<p>As a pointer to the global community\u2019s determination to resolve the crisis, a high-powered delegation of African leaders landed just two days after Ban\u2019s visit. <\/p>\n<p>It was made up of South African President Jacob Zuma, Senegal\u2019s President Macky Sall, Mauritania\u2019s Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, c of Gabon and Ethiopian PM Hailemariam Desalegn.<\/p>\n<p>During a January summit, the AU vowed to intervene in Burundi diplomatically.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier plans to send AU troops failed when the country\u2019s leadership threatened to treat them as invaders.<\/p>\n<p>The AU then decided to support \u201can inclusive political dialogue\u201d. It was with that in mind that the delegation landed in Burundi.<\/p>\n<p>The interventions in Burundi came at a time unstable Central African Republic got a president. Faustin Touadera, a former PM, won the runoff with 63 per cent of the votes.<\/p>\n<p>In Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni is faced with the tough task of proving his legitimacy following the recent general elections. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for Museveni, the polls \u2014 particularly the presidential ones \u2014 were roundly condemned as flawed and riddled with anti-opposition manoeuvres.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10648 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nkurunziza-2.jpg\" alt=\"Burundi\u2019s president Pierre Nkurunziza speaks after talks with United Nation\u2019s Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) at the president\u2019s office in Bujumbura. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A significant change of tack last week saw the United Nations and the African Union make major diplomatic forays into Burundi in a bid to resolve the country\u2019s problems without recourse to military intervention.} It was this new approach that saw UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon land in Bujumbura last Monday to meet President Pierre Nkurunziza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}