{"id":14851,"date":"2020-01-08T07:20:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T07:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=14851"},"modified":"2020-01-09T06:11:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T06:11:54","slug":"bujumbura-faces-serious-shortage-of-brarudi-beverages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/bujumbura-faces-serious-shortage-of-brarudi-beverages\/","title":{"rendered":"Bujumbura faces serious shortage of Brarudi beverages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of bars in Bujumbura city have a serious problem. \u201cWe are really faced with a great problem of getting Brarudi beverages,\u201d says a barman met in Kinama neighborhood in the north of Bujumbura city. He also says that he sometimes crosses over other neighborhoods to get those beverages. Due to the shortage of Brarudi beverages, he says, there is an increase in price.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4475\" style=\"width: 483px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4475\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fanta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fanta.jpg 1806w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fanta-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fanta-768x394.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fanta-1024x526.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fanta-600x308.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fanta-635x325.jpg 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There is a severe shortage of Brarudi beverages in Bujumbura city<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the barman, a box of primus beer which was bought for BIF 16,500 a month ago is now bought for BIF 18,500. An Amstel box which cost BIF 19,600, it now costs BIF 23,000 while the price of soft drinks which was BIF 14,300, it is now between BIF 18,000 and BIF 18,500.<\/p>\n<p>And therefore, he says, the retail price of those products goes up everyday. \u201cThe price of a bottle of soft drink-Fanta is now between BIF 900 and BIF 1000 instead of BIF 700\u201d, says another barman met in Ngagara neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre Nduwayo, Chairman of Burundi Association of Consumers asked Brarudi Company to provide more details about the shortage of its beverages. \u201cWe ignore that the issue is due to the high quantity of demand or low quantity of beverages produced by Brarudi company\u201d, he says.<br \/>\nContacted, R\u00e9my Ndayishimiye in charge of communication in Brarudi Company didn\u2019t want to comment on the shortage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of bars in Bujumbura city have a serious problem. \u201cWe are really faced with a great problem of getting Brarudi beverages,\u201d says a barman met in Kinama neighborhood in the north of Bujumbura city. He also says that he sometimes crosses over other neighborhoods to get those beverages. Due to the shortage of Brarudi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[1160,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851"}],"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=14851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14852,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851\/revisions\/14852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}