{"id":16392,"date":"2020-06-18T07:24:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=16392"},"modified":"2020-06-18T07:24:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:24:01","slug":"school-activities-suspended-for-two-days-over-swearing-in-of-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/school-activities-suspended-for-two-days-over-swearing-in-of-president-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"School activities suspended for two days over swearing-in of President-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrice Tuhabonyimana, Provincial Director of Education in Bujumbura city has said school activities will be suspended for two days respectively on 18 and 19 June following the swearing-in of President-elect Evariste Ndayishimiye in Gitega political province, on June 18.<br \/>\nHe says about 300 cheerleaders will participate in the ceremonies. \u201cThey are from different classes in 180 schools based in Bujumbura City. It would be unfair to continue sitting for exams while others are taking part in a national event\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16389\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16389\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-16389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Les-majorettes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Les-majorettes.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Les-majorettes-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Les-majorettes-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Les-majorettes-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheerleaders from Bujumbura City will participate in the swearing in of president-elect, in Gitega Province<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mr Tuhabonyimana says school activities will resume on June 20. \u201cThose cheerleaders will have a day-off on June 19, to revise their courses before attending their classes,\u201d he says.<br \/>\nEvariste Ndayishimiye will be sworn in to succeed the late President Nkurunziza who passed away due to a cardiac arrest on June 8, according to the government statement.<\/p>\n<p>On 12 June, the constitutional Court ruled that the President-elect will be sworn into office following the unexpected death of the acting president. \u201cThere is no need for an interim president as the president-elect is already known,\u201d said Charles Ndagijimana, President of the Constitutional Court.<\/p>\n<p>Evariste Ndayishimiye who will serve seven years in office was expected to be sworn in on August 20, according to the electoral code established by the National electoral commission -CENI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrice Tuhabonyimana, Provincial Director of Education in Bujumbura city has said school activities will be suspended for two days respectively on 18 and 19 June following the swearing-in of President-elect Evariste Ndayishimiye in Gitega political province, on June 18. He says about 300 cheerleaders will participate in the ceremonies. \u201cThey are from different classes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16392"}],"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=16392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16393,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16392\/revisions\/16393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}