{"id":7244,"date":"2017-11-17T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T08:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=7244"},"modified":"2017-11-17T12:49:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:49:20","slug":"burundi-media-regulator-cnc-warns-media-that-dont-comply-with-its-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-media-regulator-cnc-warns-media-that-dont-comply-with-its-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi Media Regulator-CNC warns media that don\u2019t comply with its regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Burundi Media Regulator-CNC warns media houses that will not conform to its rules and regulations will not work in Burundi from 2018. Journalists should be registered and media should sign a specification note.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7245\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7245\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7245\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CNC-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"Karenga Ramadhani and Aim\u00e9e Divine Niyokwizigirwa: Journalists without a professional card won\u2019t be allowed to work in Burundi from 2018\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CNC-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CNC-600x365.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/CNC.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karenga Ramadhani and Aim\u00e9e Divine Niyokwizigirwa: Journalists without a professional card won\u2019t be allowed to work in Burundi from 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Burundi Media Regulator-CNC says it will not be easy for media houses that will not have registered their journalists before the end of this year. \u201cJournalists who will not be registered in media national record book which is open in CNC will have no right to work in Burundi from 2018\u201d, says Aim\u00e9e Divine Niyokwizigirwa, deputy chairperson and spokesperson for CNC.<\/p>\n<p>Niyokwizigirwa also says\u00a0 all the specification notes of all media operating in Burundi have to be signed and updated: \u201cAll the media which will not have signed and updated specifications notes will have no rights to work in Burundi\u201d, she says<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom 2018, every journalist ought to be registered and have a professional card issued by CNC, if not he won\u2019t be authorized to work in the country\u201d says Karenga Ramadhani, CNC Chairman<\/p>\n<p>For Innocent Muhozi, Chairman of Burundi Press Observatory- OPB, the measures are repressive and come to worsen\u00a0 the existing chaotic situation in which Burundian journalists are working. \u201cThis is far from being logical. Journalists have their press card delivered by the media they work for. Is there any need to have another extra card while those media are registered in CNC?\u201d, he wonders<\/p>\n<p>Muhozi also says those measures are useless. He says CNC should not play the role of the police of journalists as it is doing, rather, it should promote journalism in Burundi so as to help the population to have access to information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi Media Regulator-CNC warns media houses that will not conform to its rules and regulations will not work in Burundi from 2018. Journalists should be registered and media should sign a specification note. Burundi Media Regulator-CNC says it will not be easy for media houses that will not have registered their journalists before the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,670],"tags":[113,847],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244"}],"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=7244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7254,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244\/revisions\/7254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}