{"id":4970,"date":"2017-01-25T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2017-01-26T06:33:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T06:33:48","slug":"burundi-falls-into-humanitarian-assistance-phase-says-corruption-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-falls-into-humanitarian-assistance-phase-says-corruption-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Burundi falls into humanitarian assistance phase&#8221;, says corruption watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a press release of 25 January, the anti-corruption organization OLUCOME calls on Burundi government to reduce the fiscal measures imposed on taxpayers in order to fight hunger that affects the Burundian population.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4964\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4964\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-4964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Gabriel-Rufyiri-1-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel Rufyiri: &quot;Of over 3 millions of hungry Burundians, more than 1 million may die in if they are not granted urgent assistance&quot;\" width=\"390\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Gabriel-Rufyiri-1-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Gabriel-Rufyiri-1-600x495.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Gabriel-Rufyiri-1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Rufyiri: &#8220;Of over 3 millions of hungry Burundians, more than 1 million may die in if they are not granted urgent assistance&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Of over 3 millions of hungry Burundians, more than 1 million may die if they are not granted urgent assistance,&#8221; says Gabriel Rufyiri, Chairman of OLUCOME.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/73-million-to-assist-burundis-most-vulnerable\/\" target=\"_blank\">On 19 January 2017, the Government, together with the Representative of the United Nations System in Burundi, officially launched a 2017 humanitarian response plan for Burundi.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the World Food Program, the situation of food insecurity is alarming in Burundi. &#8220;Nearly one in two households, i.e. about 4.6 millions of Burundian people among over 12 million Burundians suffer from food insecurity and more than half of the children are stunted,&#8221; the 2014-2016 WFP report says.<\/p>\n<p>The International Monetary Fund reported that the economic growth rate of Burundi in 2016 was -0.5%, the inflation rate: 6.5%, the Gross Domestic Product-GDP per capita : $ 284 ,the food inflation : 13.8% and the industrial production : -7.2% in the last quarter of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to the alarming situation of the Burundian population, the Government has imposed taxes on certain essential and sensitive products&#8221;, Rufyiri says. He says this increase in taxes for the starving citizens only worsens the existing socio-economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Rufyiri appeals to the Government of Burundi to consult Burundian citizens on this fiscal issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release of 25 January, the anti-corruption organization OLUCOME calls on Burundi government to reduce the fiscal measures imposed on taxpayers in order to fight hunger that affects the Burundian population. &#8220;Of over 3 millions of hungry Burundians, more than 1 million may die if they are not granted urgent assistance,&#8221; says Gabriel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[771,466],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970"}],"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=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4973,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions\/4973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}