{"id":12136,"date":"2019-03-29T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T08:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=12136"},"modified":"2019-03-29T12:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T12:36:33","slug":"collapsing-ravine-continues-causing-damages-in-south-of-bujumbura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/collapsing-ravine-continues-causing-damages-in-south-of-bujumbura\/","title":{"rendered":"Collapsing ravine continues causing damages in south of Bujumbura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of a school commonly known as &#8220;Kwa Vyisi&#8221; and its fence has already collapsed. School activities have been suspended since the past three weeks. The ravine is located in Kinanira 2 area, in Musaga neighborhood of Muha commune, in the south of the capital Bujumbura. So far, it has caused the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/collapsed-ravine-destroys-three-houses-in-south-of-bujumbura\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destruction of three houses, a church<\/a> and left other houses threatened.<br \/>\nThe tarred road located at about 5 meters from the ravine is about to be destroyed. People living near this road call on the government to do something before it is destroyed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12157\" style=\"width: 613px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12157\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cacaap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cacaap.jpg 803w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cacaap-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cacaap-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/cacaap-600x339.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ravine has already destroyed part of the school<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A local resident met in the area says it is a really catastrophic situation. \u201cMany houses including a school have already collapsed because of this ravine. The tarred road will be destroyed at any moment and no traffic will be possible,\u201d he says, calling on the government to intervene before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<p>Another resident says activities to prevent the ravine from causing more damages should start to protect the road which is very necessary in the daily lives of the people. \u201cIf the government doesn\u2019t intervene as soon as possible, it will be a big problem for local residents and a big loss for the country,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Sylv\u00e8re Nsagirije, Director General of Town Planning in the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Livestock says the work of rehabilitation of this ravine requires a lot of financial means. \u201cA commission has been set up to draw up the estimated amount to be used in its rehabilitation,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of a school commonly known as &#8220;Kwa Vyisi&#8221; and its fence has already collapsed. School activities have been suspended since the past three weeks. The ravine is located in Kinanira 2 area, in Musaga neighborhood of Muha commune, in the south of the capital Bujumbura. So far, it has caused the destruction of three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,670],"tags":[45,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12169,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12136\/revisions\/12169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}