Burundi, Belgium ink €75 million cooperation deal

Burundi and Belgium have sealed a deal worth €75 million covering five cooperation areas namely health, education, agriculture, climate change, and good governance, Cooperation ministry of the central African country said.

Albert Shingiro, Burundi’s External Relations and International Cooperation Minister, signed the deal with Belgium’s ambassador Michael Wimmer.

The Belgian development agency, Enable, will implement the deal spanning over 2024-2028 period.

The deal is the first with the European country since 2015, the year of political upheaval that followed the rejection by millions of Burundians of the third term by former and late President Pierre Nkurunziza.

Burundi and Belgium have maintained good ties since the African country gained its independence from its former colonial power, on July 1st, 1962.