{"id":8366,"date":"2018-04-06T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T09:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2018-04-06T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T09:12:41","slug":"api-unable-to-control-all-companies-operating-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/api-unable-to-control-all-companies-operating-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"API unable to control all companies operating in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Investment Promotion Agency (API) has said it is unable to regulate all the companies operating in Burundi due to limited budget. L\u00e9onard Sentore, Director of API, has said that this Thursday 05 April.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8361\" style=\"width: 459px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8361\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8361\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Leonard-Sentore-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"L\u00e9onard Sentore: \u201cAPI does not have sufficient means to control all new companies\u201d\" width=\"449\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Leonard-Sentore-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Leonard-Sentore-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Leonard-Sentore-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Leonard-Sentore.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L\u00e9onard Sentore: \u201cAPI does not have sufficient means to control all new companies\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While informing the public about the achievements of the agency during the first term of 2018, Sentore has said more than 2000 companies are created every year.<\/p>\n<p>He has said API concentrates on \u201cbig\u201d companies in the strategic sector as most of the small companies are likely to go bankrupt or change the sector they were operating in. \u201cSome of them collapse after a short period of time. Others move from this sector to another without even informing API whose focus is now on big companies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sentore says the agency has however taken a significant step forward by registering a big number of companies in 2018 in comparison with the previous years. \u201cThe Agency registered 680 companies that are likely to hire 4912 employees. This shows an improvement of 10% compared to the previous years\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Investment Promotion Agency (API) has said it is unable to regulate all the companies operating in Burundi due to limited budget. L\u00e9onard Sentore, Director of API, has said that this Thursday 05 April. While informing the public about the achievements of the agency during the first term of 2018, Sentore has said more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,670],"tags":[704,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366"}],"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=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8367,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions\/8367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}