Burundi wins big as bloc lifts economic sanctions

Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye

Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye is credited with reforms that moved donors to drop sanctions. PHOTO |  AFP

Burundi relations with the European Union appear to have ‘normalised’ when the latter announced on Tuesday resumption of funding it had suspended in 2016.

The decision by Brussels is a big achievement for President Evariste Ndayishimiye who took over in June 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and sanctions by all Western countries. He initiated changes in governance to better relations regionally and internationally.