{"id":8695,"date":"2026-02-05T12:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/?p=8695"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:45:44","slug":"the-permanent-secretary-in-charge-of-foreign-affairs-received-in-audience-the-honorary-consul-of-the-republic-of-cote-divoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/the-permanent-secretary-in-charge-of-foreign-affairs-received-in-audience-the-honorary-consul-of-the-republic-of-cote-divoire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Permanent Secretary in Charge of Foreign Affairs received in audience the Honorary Consul of the Republic of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, February 6, 2026, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration, and Development Cooperation, Mr. Sophonie NITUNGA, received in audience Mr. SANGARE Daouda, Honorary Consul of the Republic of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire in Burundi, who came for a courtesy visit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8697 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien-1024x1021.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien-768x766.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien-1536x1531.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien-2048x2042.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the context of strengthening the bilateral and friendly cooperation that exists between Burundi and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, Mr. Daouda expressed the wish for the high Burundian authorities to visit his country in the near future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the same spirit of cooperation, the Honorary Consul suggested negotiating visa exemptions for Burundians traveling to C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking about key areas where his country wishes to contribute, he mentioned agriculture, mining, energy, sports, and transportation, where he proposed an innovative idea of a \u2018\u2019boat-bus\u2019\u2019 that could transport goods and people across Lake Tanganyika to facilitate movement between the DRC and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8698 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien3-300x212.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien3-300x212.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien3-1024x724.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien3-768x543.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien3-1536x1086.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/soph-et-ivoirien3-2048x1448.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also informed that C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire has experience in improving oil palm seed varieties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding expertise in social housing, Mr. Daouda proposed prefabricated houses for state officials, payable over thirty years. He also suggested high-rise constructions to free up arable land and find a solution to the issue of limited land space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Sophonie reminded that Burundi is approaching a very crucial period in its history, the one of presiding over the African Union for the year 2026, and that technical support from partner countries is very important<strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, February 6, 2026, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration, and Development Cooperation, Mr. Sophonie NITUNGA, received in audience Mr. SANGARE Daouda, Honorary Consul of the Republic of C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire in Burundi, who came for a courtesy visit. \u00a0 In the context of strengthening the bilateral and friendly cooperation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}