{"id":118448,"date":"2021-04-13T18:15:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118448"},"modified":"2021-04-13T18:15:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T10:15:19","slug":"un-burundi-office-to-close-may-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118448","title":{"rendered":"UN Burundi office to close May 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/UN-Burundi-office-to-close-May-31-1230292?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/722\/72200290.295.jpg\" alt=\"Evariste Ndayishimiye,  President of Burundi\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Evariste Ndayishimiye, President of Burundi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United Nations special envoy&#8217;s office to Burundi will close on May 31, five months after the isolated regime requested it shuttered, the UN secretary-general said.<br><br>A highly political issue, the UN&#8217;s presence has been a source of tension for years between the organisation and Burundian authorities, which have contested the need for UN Security Council observation mission.<br><br>The office was established after the central African nation was plunged into political crisis in 2015, when then-president Pierre Nkurunziza ran for a disputed third term, sparking violence that claimed at least 1,200 lives.<br><br>General Evariste Ndayishimiye was elected in May 2020 to succeed Nkurunziza, who died in June. UN investigators said in September that rights abuses have continued under Ndayishimiye.<br><br>Burundi notified the UN in November last year that its office would be closed by Dec 31, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in his letter to the Security Council. But the two sides agreed that the UN needed more time and settled on May 31.<br><br>In a unanimously adopted declaration, the Security Council called on Burundi late last year to &#8220;cooperate&#8221; with the UN in promoting national reconciliation and the rule of law.<br><br>&#8220;There is important work ahead to advance national reconciliation, promotion of the rule of law and of an independent and effective judiciary,&#8221; said the declaration.<br><br>After the UN envoy&#8217;s office closes, the United Nations is expected to continue monitoring Burundi via the special envoy to the Great Lakes region, China&#8217;s Huang Xia. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evariste Ndayishimiye, President of Burundi UNITED NATIONS, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The United Nations special envoy&#8217;s office to Burundi will close on May 31, five months after the isolated regime requested it shuttered, the UN secretary-general said. A highly political issue, the UN&#8217;s presence has been a source of tension for years between the organisation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118448"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}