Burundi Demands UN Mediator Resign as Regional Leaders Meet
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Burundi’s ruling party demanded the resignation of a United Nations official trying to help mediate an end to the country’s political crisis, as regional leaders gathered in neighboring Tanzania to discuss the impasse.
Abdoulaye Bathily “has not shown neutrality in his work,” Daniel Gelase Ndabirabe, spokesman for the National Council for the Defence of Democracy-Forces for the Defence of Democracy, or CNDD-FDD, said in a statement in the capital, Bujumbura, on Sunday. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed Bathily, a Senegalese diplomat, last month to oversee negotiations between the government and the opposition.