Parties determined to find solution to Burundi’s problems

Representatives of the parties engaged in the Burundi peace process are determined to come up with concrete solutions to the country’s problems, a spokesman of the Nyerere Foundation, Mark Bomani, told IRIN today. “All parties are seriously deliberating both in the plenary and committee sessions. The process is peaceful and everyone is listening to the other,” he said.

Debate on economic reconstruction and rehabilitation has taken center stage in the first three days of the proposed two-week talks. “We have no infrastructure, thousands of people are displaced, many are refugees. People’s lives were disrupted and destroyed and this is the concern of all political parties represented here,” CNDD’s spokesman, Leonce Ndarubagiye, told IRIN.