A Rwandan delegation on Wednesday, April 26, delivered President Paul Kagame’s message to his Burundian counterpart Evariste Ndayishimiye.

The delegation was led by the Minister of State in charge of the East African Community in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Manasseh Nshuti, as a special envoy, the office of the Burundian president said.

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The visit follows a meeting of Presidents Kagame and Ndayishimiye on February 4, which took place in the Burundi capital Bujumbura, after the summit of EAC leaders that discussed the crisis in eastern DR Congo.

In 2020, the two countries began to normalise relations that had been soured by an attempted coup in Burundi.

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In July 2021, Rwanda’s Prime Minister, Edouard Ngirente, attended Independence Day celebrations in Burundi.

In January 2022, President Ndayishimiye sent a message to President Kagame through the Burundian Minister in charge of East African Community Affairs, Ezechiel Nibigira.

In December 2022, a Burundian delegation led by Lt Gen Andre Ndayambaje, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, came to Rwanda on a three-day campaign to encourage over 50,000 refugees who fled to Rwanda in 2015 to return home.

Earlier, in September, Rwanda&039;s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Vincent Biruta, met with his Burundian counterpart, Amb. Albert Shingiro, on the side-lines of the 76th United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States. They exchanged on matters of bilateral ties and the normalisation of the two countries’ relations.