{"id":12527,"date":"2019-04-30T07:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T07:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=12527"},"modified":"2019-04-30T07:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T07:04:27","slug":"kenneth-cyclone-not-to-hit-burundi-igebu-reassures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/kenneth-cyclone-not-to-hit-burundi-igebu-reassures\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Cyclone not to hit Burundi, IGEBU reassures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since April 25, information flows that a cyclone called Kenneth is likely to hit the East African countries.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12526\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12526\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12526\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IGEBU-station-Nyabiraba.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IGEBU-station-Nyabiraba.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IGEBU-station-Nyabiraba-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IGEBU-station-Nyabiraba-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IGEBU-station-Nyabiraba-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IGEBU station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Augustin Ntirampeba, Director General of the Burundi Geographical Institute-IGEBU, assures that Burundi is not exposed to the danger. He indicates that the Cyclone Kenneth that was coming from the Indian Ocean with a speed of 120 km \/ h was stopped by the mountains in southern Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We observed a cyclone in northern Madagascar that threatened to enter Africa through Tanzania. This Cyclone started with low speed, but it increased the speed to about 120km \/ h, &#8220;says the Director of IGEBU adding that after entering Tanzania, the Cyclone reduced its speed to 80km \/ h.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hurricane did not continue its way. It was blocked by the mountains in southern Tanzania,\u201d says Ntirampeba adding that Burundians should not worry since Cyclone Kenneth has turned back.<\/p>\n<p>In the far north of Mozambique, tens of thousands of people are threatened by the &#8220;devastating&#8221; flood following the crossing of cyclone Kenneth, which has already caused at least 38 deaths and enormous damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since April 25, information flows that a cyclone called Kenneth is likely to hit the East African countries. Augustin Ntirampeba, Director General of the Burundi Geographical Institute-IGEBU, assures that Burundi is not exposed to the danger. He indicates that the Cyclone Kenneth that was coming from the Indian Ocean with a speed of 120 km [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[40,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527"}],"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=12527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12528,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions\/12528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}