{"id":12324,"date":"2019-04-11T06:11:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T06:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=12324"},"modified":"2019-04-11T06:11:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T06:11:51","slug":"cibitoke-residents-worried-about-soaring-of-food-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/cibitoke-residents-worried-about-soaring-of-food-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Cibitoke residents worried about soaring of food prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Food prices have significantly risen in recent days in Rugombo commune of Cibitoke province in north-west of Burundi. The population urges the authorities to stabilize prices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12323\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12323\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/denr\u00e9s-alimentaires.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/denr\u00e9s-alimentaires.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/denr\u00e9s-alimentaires-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/denr\u00e9s-alimentaires-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/denr\u00e9s-alimentaires-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Food prices have significantly risen in recent days in Rugombo commune<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One kg of beans which was bought at BIF 1400 currently costs BIF 2000. A kg of rice that cost BIF 1300 costs BIF 2000 while 1 kg of cassava flour that was bought at BIF 700 costs BIF 1,300 now. Sources say prices of other foodstuffs have also gone up.<\/p>\n<p>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Nduwimana, a bean seller at Rugombo market explains that traders also source foodstuffs at a high price. &#8220;Customers have decreased because the prices have skyrocketed,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>C.K, a resident of Rugombo regrets that this price increase will cause the depreciation of the local currency. &#8220;If the situation does not change, we will not be able to feed our families in the next few years as our salaries do not increase,&#8221; says C.K.<\/p>\n<p>The economic adviser of the administrator of Rugombo commune indicates that the local authorities plan to organize a meeting with traders to fix together the prices of foodstuffs in order to avoid speculations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food prices have significantly risen in recent days in Rugombo commune of Cibitoke province in north-west of Burundi. The population urges the authorities to stabilize prices. One kg of beans which was bought at BIF 1400 currently costs BIF 2000. A kg of rice that cost BIF 1300 costs BIF 2000 while 1 kg of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[90,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12325,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12324\/revisions\/12325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}