{"id":4145,"date":"2016-10-25T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2016-10-25T14:20:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T14:20:02","slug":"thousands-flee-famine-due-to-drought-in-kirundo-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/thousands-flee-famine-due-to-drought-in-kirundo-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands flee famine due to drought in Kirundo Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4146\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4146\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Kirundo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Some deserted houses in Kirundo\" width=\"434\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Kirundo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Kirundo-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Kirundo.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some deserted houses in Kirundo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More than 4000 people have fled their homes since the past few days following severe drought according to Melchior Nankwahomba, the governor of the northern province of Kirundo. He says \u201ctheir urgent need is food\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sources on the spot say some people are so desperate that they sell their properties to buy food.<\/p>\n<p>Nankwahomba says local authorities are trying their best to come to the help of the suffering population. He calls on anyone who can help to act.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official, people flee from Bugabira, Busoni and Kirundo communes to the neighboring province of Cankuzo.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the dry season has been abnormally long, thus making farming practically impossible. And this happens in a country where more than 90% live on farming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 4000 people have fled their homes since the past few days following severe drought according to Melchior Nankwahomba, the governor of the northern province of Kirundo. He says \u201ctheir urgent need is food\u201d. Sources on the spot say some people are so desperate that they sell their properties to buy food. Nankwahomba says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,670],"tags":[852,851],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}