{"id":8495,"date":"2018-04-18T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T08:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=8495"},"modified":"2018-04-18T13:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T13:33:22","slug":"iwacu-represents-media-freedom-in-burundi-says-germany-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/iwacu-represents-media-freedom-in-burundi-says-germany-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Iwacu represents media freedom in Burundi, says Germany Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a visit that he conducted to IWACU Press Group on 17 April, Mr. Thomas Strieder, Ambassador of Germany to Burundi has said \u201cIwacu represents media freedom in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8497\" style=\"width: 452px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8497\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/visite-Ambassadeur-Allemagne-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Ambassador Thomas Strieder: \u201cIt takes courage to continue informing people about what\u2019s happening in the country despite challenges\u201d\" width=\"442\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/visite-Ambassadeur-Allemagne-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/visite-Ambassadeur-Allemagne-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/visite-Ambassadeur-Allemagne-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/visite-Ambassadeur-Allemagne.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ambassador Thomas Strieder: \u201cIt takes courage to continue informing people about what\u2019s happening in the country despite challenges\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ambassador Strieder has said he appreciates the work done by Iwacu despite a number of challenges.\u201dIt takes courage to continue informing people about what\u2019s happening in the country given the challenges the newspaper is faced with,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>As for L\u00e9andre Sikuyavuga, Editor-in \u2013chief, he says Iwacu is not at the service of any party or ideology but rather strives for quality journalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the difficult situation of the press in the country, 38 journalists from different services strive to give credible information to all the audience of Iwacu from inside and outside the country,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a visit that he conducted to IWACU Press Group on 17 April, Mr. Thomas Strieder, Ambassador of Germany to Burundi has said \u201cIwacu represents media freedom in the country.\u201d Ambassador Strieder has said he appreciates the work done by Iwacu despite a number of challenges.\u201dIt takes courage to continue informing people about what\u2019s happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,670],"tags":[113,1234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8503,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions\/8503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}