{"id":25448,"date":"2016-05-20T01:12:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T01:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/burundi-refuses-any-negotiation-with-opposition\/"},"modified":"2016-05-20T01:11:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T01:11:35","slug":"burundi-refuses-any-negotiation-with-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/burundi-refuses-any-negotiation-with-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi Refuses Any Negotiation With Opposition at Peace Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Burundi\u2019s government is only attending peace talks in Tanzania this weekend to hold discussions with mediators and won\u2019t meet other factions in the country\u2019s 13-month crisis, a presidential spokesman said.}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing to negotiate\u201d at the meetings in the city of Arusha that are due to start May 21, Willy Nyamitwe told reporters late Wednesday in Burundi\u2019s capital, Bujumbura. <\/p>\n<p>The East African nation\u2019s main opposition coalition, Cnared, said on its Facebook account that it hasn\u2019t been officially invited to the three-day talks.<\/p>\n<p>Landlocked Burundi has been rocked by violence that\u2019s killed more than 470 people since President Pierre Nkurunziza decided in April 2015 to stand for re-election, a move his opponents said was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Burundi\u2019s government is only attending peace talks in Tanzania this weekend to hold discussions with mediators and won\u2019t meet other factions in the country\u2019s 13-month crisis, a presidential spokesman said.} \u201cThere is nothing to negotiate\u201d at the meetings in the city of Arusha that are due to start May 21, Willy Nyamitwe told reporters late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99],"byline":[2583],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-bloomberg"],"bylines":[{"id":2583,"name":"Bloomberg","slug":"bloomberg","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":2583,"name":"Bloomberg","slug":"bloomberg","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\/25448","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=25448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25448"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25448"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}