{"id":21747,"date":"2015-12-09T07:06:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T07:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/former-rwanda-diplomat-arrested-in-burundi\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T07:05:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T07:05:43","slug":"former-rwanda-diplomat-arrested-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/former-rwanda-diplomat-arrested-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rwanda diplomat arrested in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Burundi intelligence organs last week arrested former Rwanda ambassador to Belgium and France Jacques Bihozagara.  } <\/p>\n<p>Burundi intelligence office has told APF that Bihozagara was arrested on Friday 4th December alleging him to be a Rwandan spy.  <\/p>\n<p>This has been revealed by one of Burundi intelligence officials who requested anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Bihozagara who was the Minister of Disaster Management and Refugee affairs is imprisoned in Rohero, Bujumbura.<\/p>\n<p>The Rwandan ambassador in Burundi, Rugira Amandin, has confirmed to IGIHE that Bihozagara is under arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Fid\u00e8le Munyeshyaka, the first secretary of Rwandan embassy in Bujumbura said that they received information on the arrest of Bihozagara but reasons of his arrest were not stated.<\/p>\n<p>Burundi has been in heated conflicts since the Burundi ruling political party confirmed president Nkurunziza as presidential candidate who won elections later in July 2015.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9719 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rw_epa_1161772330-9d141.jpg\" alt=\"Jacques Bihozagara\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Burundi intelligence organs last week arrested former Rwanda ambassador to Belgium and France Jacques Bihozagara. } Burundi intelligence office has told APF that Bihozagara was arrested on Friday 4th December alleging him to be a Rwandan spy. This has been revealed by one of Burundi intelligence officials who requested anonymity. According to sources, Bihozagara who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070732,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21747.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21747.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21747.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21747.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21747.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21747.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21747"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21747"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}