{"id":13163,"date":"2019-07-19T07:11:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=13163"},"modified":"2019-07-19T07:11:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:11:14","slug":"catastrophe-likely-to-occur-in-kuwinterekwa-in-north-of-bujumbura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/catastrophe-likely-to-occur-in-kuwinterekwa-in-north-of-bujumbura\/","title":{"rendered":"Catastrophe likely to occur in Kuwinterekwa in north of Bujumbura"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earth fissures continue to destroy houses at Kuwinterekwa locality in Gihosha zone of Ntahangwa commune in the northern part of Bujumbura city. Residents demand urgent help.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One of the damaged houses in Kuwinterekwa locality<\/p><\/div>\n

In the locality commonly known as Kuwinterekwa, people live in a desperate situation. Some houses have already been destroyed and others are likely to collapse at any time due to soil cracks. Some people live in huts built in metal sheets because their houses were destroyed while others stay in their houses despite cracks on the walls.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe fear the worst especially when it starts raining.\u201d says Isaie Nibizi, a person whose houses were damaged. I live in grinding poverty since all my houses have been destroyed by these ground fissures, he adds.<\/p>\n

Mr. Nibizi says the government told them it was going to move them but nothing has so far been done to help them. \u201cWe would have left the place already if we had had means,\u201d he adds.
\nHe asks the government to find them another place where they can build houses. \u201cWe should be given plots of land which are not far from the city so we can go about our businesses as normal,\u201d says Nibizi.<\/p>\n

Another local source says houses continue to collapse. \u201cWe built these houses on bank loans and we have not yet paid them back,\u201d he says adding that they must leave the place before the start of the rainy season.
\nContacted, Anicet Nibaruta, Deputy Director of the civil protection police says they are aware of the Kuwinterekwa situation. He says the expected funds are not yet given so as to handle the issue.
\nOn March 27, 2019, the team composed of the Ministry of Public works, the Civil Protection Police and the Red Cross made a joint visit in Kuwinterekwa locality.<\/p>\n

Antoine Ntemako, Director of civil protection police said \u201cpeople living in half damaged houses and those which are about to collapse have to be evacuated to another place urgently\u201d.<\/a>
\nOn May 23, D\u00e9o Guide Rurema, Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Livestock had said people living in Kuwinterekwa locality \u201chad to move to another area\u201d. For him, the locality is by no means a residential area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earth fissures continue to destroy houses at Kuwinterekwa locality in Gihosha zone of Ntahangwa commune in the northern part of Bujumbura city. Residents demand urgent help. In the locality commonly known as Kuwinterekwa, people live in a desperate situation. Some houses have already been destroyed and others are likely to collapse at any time due […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":13162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[45,735],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13164,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163\/revisions\/13164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}