{"id":15833,"date":"2020-04-23T07:23:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T07:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=15833"},"modified":"2020-04-23T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T07:23:11","slug":"burundi-only-press-card-holders-to-be-allowed-to-work-from-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-only-press-card-holders-to-be-allowed-to-work-from-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi: Only press card holders to be allowed to work from July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Journalists or communication technicians who do not have a press card will not be allowed to work from July 2020,&#8221; said Nestor Bankumukunzi, Chairman of Burundi Media Regulator (CNC) this 22 April after a two-day meeting of committee members held from 21 to 22 April in the Burundian economic capital Bujumbura.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14495\" style=\"width: 527px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14495\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-14495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nestor-Bankumukunzi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nestor-Bankumukunzi.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nestor-Bankumukunzi-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nestor-Bankumukunzi-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nestor-Bankumukunzi-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nestor Bankumukunzi, CNC Chairman: \u201c812 press cards have already been issued to applicants meeting the requirements\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr Bankumukunzi indicated that 812 press cards have already been issued to applicants meeting the requirements.<\/p>\n<p>All the press card applicants must submit their files to the CNC secretariat as soon as possible so that they are all served by July.<\/p>\n<p>He reassures that the process of issuing these press cards which was officially launched in July 2019 will accelerate as the problem that slowed it in the past has been resolved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CNC has awarded the contract to manufacture these press cards to a new company after noticing shortcomings with the first customer,&#8221; said Nestor Bankumukunzi.<\/p>\n<p>The new company is doing its job properly, reassured the CNC chairman adding that a journalist who submits their complete file receives their press card after three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Journalists or communication technicians who do not have a press card will not be allowed to work from July 2020,&#8221; said Nestor Bankumukunzi, Chairman of Burundi Media Regulator (CNC) this 22 April after a two-day meeting of committee members held from 21 to 22 April in the Burundian economic capital Bujumbura. Mr Bankumukunzi indicated that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[847],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833"}],"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=15833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15834,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833\/revisions\/15834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}