{"id":4024,"date":"2015-06-12T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2015-06-12T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T07:00:10","slug":"burundi-un-mediator-said-djinnit-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/06\/12\/burundi-un-mediator-said-djinnit-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi UN mediator Said Djinnit steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UN envoy Said Djinnit has stepped down as mediator in the Burundi crisis &#8211; a demand of those opposed to the president&#8217;s third-term bid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Said Djinnit had been hosting talks between the governing party and those who do not want President Pierre Nkurunziza to stand for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>His announcement has sparked weeks of protests in Burundi and a failed coup.<\/p>\n<p>The election was due in June but was put back to 15 July following pressure from regional leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Djinnit was aware of the &#8220;positions expressed&#8230; on his role as facilitator by some Burundian parties&#8221;, according to a UN statement.<\/p>\n<p>They had complained that the talks were not focusing on the root cause of the crisis, which they say is the third-term bid.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Djinnit said that though the dialogue had not achieved agreement on the &#8220;candidature of President Nkurunziza&#8221;, there had been &#8220;progress&#8221; in other areas.<\/p>\n<p>One of the leaders of the anti-third-term protests, Nininahazwe Pacifique, has welcomed the resignation saying that Mr Djinnit had &#8220;no choice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The president &#8220;should follow this beautiful example,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential election was postponed by 18 days, which falls short of a call by regional leaders to delay the poll by at least six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Though he is stepping down from his role as talks mediator, Mr Djinnit remains the UN&#8217;s envoy to the Great Lakes region, a UN official says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN envoy Said Djinnit has stepped down as mediator in the Burundi crisis &#8211; a demand of those opposed to the president&#8217;s third-term bid. Said Djinnit had been hosting talks between the governing party and those who do not want President Pierre Nkurunziza to stand for re-election. His announcement has sparked weeks of protests in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}