{"id":5304,"date":"2017-03-07T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=5304"},"modified":"2017-03-07T09:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T09:14:00","slug":"fuel-shortage-in-bujumbura-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/fuel-shortage-in-bujumbura-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel shortage in Bujumbura city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bujumbura residents say fuel is increasingly becoming scarce in the capital city. They fear that the situation may get worse. Some service stations were not distributing fuel yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5305\" style=\"width: 505px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5305\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5305\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSC_6465-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"KOBIL station of Kamenge was not providing fuel\" width=\"495\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSC_6465-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSC_6465-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/DSC_6465.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KOBIL station of Kamenge was not providing fuel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;For over two weeks, we have no fuel. I do not know what has happened, &#8220;said one\u201cKOBIL\u201d gas station attendant\u201d at Kamenge .<br \/>\nThe same situation is observed at \u2018ENGEN\u2019 gas station in Kamenge, north of Bujumbura. The pump attendant says it has been almost one month they have no fuel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since morning I have been to at least 10 different gas stations to get fuel but to no avail,&#8221; said a bus driver using the Bujumbura-Rugombo route met at Top One gas station in Kigobe, central Bujumbura where pump attendants were providing fuel. &#8220;There is still fuel here but we get too many customers. They say they went everywhere but couldn\u2019t find it, &#8220;says a pump attendant.<\/p>\n<p>Only the ENGEN and KOBIL gas stations were not providing fuel but others were supplying fuel to their customers.<br \/>\n&#8220;We have not had fuel for over two weeks. The &#8216;KOBIL&#8217; company could not stock up fuel because of the lack of foreign currency,&#8221;says the manager of the KOBIL gas station in Musaga, south of Bujumbura.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Mpitabakana, charged with managing fuel in the Ministry of Energy, says he noticed yesterday that some gas stations were not providing fuel. \u201cI was informed by these oil companies that they have had a supply delay. This is a simple delay that will not last longer,\u201d says Mpitabakana. He says there will be no fuel problem in two or three days because they said they missed foreign currency to import it. &#8220;In the middle of the past week, companies importing fuel received foreign currency to get it,&#8221; says Mpitabakana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bujumbura residents say fuel is increasingly becoming scarce in the capital city. They fear that the situation may get worse. Some service stations were not distributing fuel yesterday. &#8220;For over two weeks, we have no fuel. I do not know what has happened, &#8220;said one\u201cKOBIL\u201d gas station attendant\u201d at Kamenge . The same situation is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[1035,1036],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304"}],"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=5304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5304\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}