{"id":8897,"date":"2026-03-30T04:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:01:16","slug":"the-representative-of-the-who-in-burundi-bids-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/the-representative-of-the-who-in-burundi-bids-farewell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Representative of the WHO in Burundi bids farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, March 30, 2026, the Permanent Secretary in charge of Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and Development Cooperation, Mr. Sophonie Nitunga, granted an audience to the Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Burundi, Dr. Xavier Crespin, who came to bid him farewell at the end of his mandate in the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8929\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS-300x223.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS-300x223.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS-1024x763.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS-768x572.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS-1536x1144.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS-2048x1525.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS1-300x206.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS1-300x206.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS1-1024x704.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS1-768x528.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS1-1536x1057.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS1-2048x1409.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/OMS1-110x75.jpeg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During this meeting, Dr. Crespin commended the excellent quality of the relations of cooperation between Burundi and the WHO. He also expressed his gratitude to the Ministry for the technical support he received throughout his tenure, emphasizing that the leadership of the Burundian authorities was crucial to the results achieved during his five years of service in Burundi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This visit was also an opportunity to introduce Dr. KAYA, appointed as the new Representative ad interim of WHO for a period of three months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Permanent Secretary congratulated Dr. Crespin on the achievements deemed satisfactory, as well as on his commitment, sense of cooperation and courage, particularly remarkable during the difficult period of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also reaffirmed the Ministry&#8217;s commitment to continuing close collaboration with the new team, while guaranteeing the ongoing support if need be \u00a0for the success of their mission in Burundi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, March 30, 2026, the Permanent Secretary in charge of Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and Development Cooperation, Mr. Sophonie Nitunga, granted an audience to the Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Burundi, Dr. Xavier Crespin, who came to bid him farewell at the end of his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8897","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\/8897","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=8897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8931,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8897\/revisions\/8931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mae.gov.bi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}