{"id":3660,"date":"2016-09-01T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T10:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2016-09-01T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T10:07:20","slug":"the-director-and-wfp-representative-in-burundi-is-no-longer-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/the-director-and-wfp-representative-in-burundi-is-no-longer-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"The director and WFP representative in Burundi is no longer alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3661\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Roy.jpe\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3661\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3661\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Roy-214x300.jpe\" alt=\"Jacques Roy \" width=\"183\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Roy-214x300.jpe 214w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Roy.jpe 463w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacques Roy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jacques Roy passed away on Wednesday, 31 August at 10 am; he is victim of cardiac arrest. He was attending a UNHCR meeting with other heads of United Nations Agencies when he was taken ill.<\/p>\n<p>He retreated to a side room and after the first aids on the spot, he was urgently evacuated to Kira hospital at Kinindo for intensive care. He was in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>It was after an hour that the doctor who was treating him gave the sad news. The director and WFP representative in Burundi died of a heart attack. According to sources contacted from WFP, he was in good health and was returning from a vacation.<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian national, Jacques Roy had just spent a year in Burundi as the World Food Programm representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Roy passed away on Wednesday, 31 August at 10 am; he is victim of cardiac arrest. He was attending a UNHCR meeting with other heads of United Nations Agencies when he was taken ill. He retreated to a side room and after the first aids on the spot, he was urgently evacuated to Kira [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,670],"tags":[49,80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}