{"id":268218,"date":"2019-06-04T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=268218"},"modified":"2019-06-04T07:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T05:00:55","slug":"burundi-rejected-as-potential-sadc-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=268218","title":{"rendered":"Burundi rejected as potential SADC member"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_3\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\" data-testid=\"post_message\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>Staff Reporter<br \/>\nTHE Southern African Development Community (SADC) has rejected Burundi\u2019s application to join the bloc and said that Bujumbura did not meet all the necessary requirements.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_268220\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/61964042_2274576232609324_7164000729558941696_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-268220\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/61964042_2274576232609324_7164000729558941696_n-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/61964042_2274576232609324_7164000729558941696_n-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/61964042_2274576232609324_7164000729558941696_n-765x510.png 765w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/61964042_2274576232609324_7164000729558941696_n.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured: Burundi\u2019s head of state, President Pierre Nkurunziza. Photo: contributed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Hage Geingob acting in his capacity as the Chairman of the SADC, said that Burundi did not meet the bloc\u2019s admission requirements after yet another assessment.<br \/>\nBurundi\u2019s internal political instability is blamed for this as President Pierre Nkurunziza continues to face allegations of stifling democracy since he ran for a controversial third term in office in 2015 causing outbreaks of political violence. His administration has denied the allegations.<br \/>\nPresident Geingbob said that the SADC assessment mission visited Burundi, but recommended that it is not yet beneficial for Burundi to be admitted into the SADC due to what he called the unresolved democratic process in that country.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are also concerned about the counter-accusations between Burundi and Rwanda about interference in each other\u2019s internal affairs,\u201d Dr. Geingob said<br \/>\nBurundi, alongside Comoros, applied for SADC membership early in 2017. The latter\u2019s application was accepted at the SADC Heads of State summit last year.<br \/>\nBurundi blew its chances of joining SADC because its president, Pierre Nkurunziza, provoked political instability when he took an apparently unconstitutional third term in office in 2015.<br \/>\nThe Burundian government also rejected several SADC assessment missions which were necessary to measure how far the country has come to enable it to join the regional bloc.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-266739\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Agribank-Drought-relief.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Agribank-Drought-relief.jpg 728w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Agribank-Drought-relief-300x84.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) has rejected Burundi\u2019s application to join the bloc and said that Bujumbura did not meet all the necessary requirements. President Hage Geingob acting in his capacity as the Chairman of the SADC, said that Burundi did not meet the bloc\u2019s admission requirements after yet another assessment. Burundi\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":268221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Burundi rejected as potential SADC member - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) has rejected Burundi\u2019s application to join the bloc and said that Bujumbura did not meet all the necessary requirements.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=268218\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Burundi rejected as potential SADC member - 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