Be careful with some of the stories you read from some of these institutions. You have lobbyists using these institutions to hit their targets.
In particular, by portraying Burundi as a failure or failed State, the lobbyists were preparing the world for what they expected to be ” regime change” in Burundi.
Think about this:
(a) If Burundi was doing so bad, how would the country have survived without Western aid for about 2 years?
(b) why has the Burundian franc remained relatively stable ?
(c) A gov in a financial crisis wouldn’t purchase a presidential jet without borrowing, right? Burundi just did that, correct?
(d) A country in a financial crisis we are told Burundi is going through wouldn’t be constructing a new city, right?
(e) how does a State that provides free healthcare to all children under 5, like Burundi does, be falling to ruin?
(f) Burundi just increased salaries for it’s public servants, right? That’s not what countries in a terrible financial crisis do. Compare it with Rwanda where many public servants have gone without pay for three months now.
(f) Do you think it’s cheap for the gov of Burundi to be fighting Kagame’s forces from Rwanda/Burundi border and from Burundi/DRC border? If the Burundi of today was as poor as it were until the recent past, I respectively submit, Kagame would have overthrown Nkurunziza already.
By Charles Kambanda
