{"id":34422,"date":"2017-05-08T13:11:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/former-burkina-faso-president-named-un-burundi\/"},"modified":"2017-05-08T13:11:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:11:13","slug":"former-burkina-faso-president-named-un-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/former-burkina-faso-president-named-un-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Burkina Faso president named UN Burundi envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

{New York – Former Burkina Faso president, Michel Kafando, has been appointed the new UN envoy for Burundi, where efforts to end a political crisis over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s rule have stalled.}<\/p>\n

Kafando, 74, has “more than three decades of extensive experience in high-level international diplomacy and politics”, the UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said Friday in announcing the appointment.<\/p>\n

A former foreign minister and UN ambassador, Kafando was president from November 2014 to December 2015 during Burkina Faso’s transition to civilian rule following a military takeover and the resignation of long-serving leader Blaise Compaore.<\/p>\n

Kafando will replace Jamal Benomar, who held the post since November 2015 and who had come under heavy criticism and calls to resign from the Bujumbura government.<\/p>\n

Relations between Burundi and the United Nations nosedived after a report by UN rights experts in September blamed state police and security forces for the violence tearing the country apart since April 2015.<\/p>\n

Hundreds died, hundreds more have disappeared and 390 000 people fled after Nkurunziza announced plans to run for a third term, which he went on to win.<\/p>\n

The Security Council last month threw its weight behind a proposal by mediator Benjamin Mkapa, the former president of Tanzania, to hold a regional summit to press the government and the opposition to start negotiations.<\/p>\n

But east African leaders appear divided on the way forward and there has been no progress towards holding talks.<\/p>\n

Kafando will be based in Ouagadougou and travel to Burundi for his peace mission.<\/p>\n

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Source:AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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