{"id":23329,"date":"2016-02-19T00:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T00:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rusizi-residents-want-rwanda-drc-border-opened\/"},"modified":"2016-02-20T06:30:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T06:30:44","slug":"rusizi-residents-want-rwanda-drc-border-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rusizi-residents-want-rwanda-drc-border-opened\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusizi residents want Rwanda-DRC border opened full time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Residents in Rusizi and Bukavu have requested for the border between the two countries to open Rusizi I border 24 hours as it recently happened to removal of night barriers of Rwanda and DRC border in Rubavu district to facilitate their trade and travels.}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt becomes complicated for a Rwandan to return late from sale of merchandise only to find the border closed. The cooperation would be eased if the situation is ameliorated like Rubavu case,\u201dsaid Uwimpuhwe Claudette.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would cross the border whenever we wanted when the border was opened all time. We wish the border should be opened all the time to facilitate our movements,\u201d said Martin Mwenja.<\/p>\n<p>Butera Yves, the officer in charge of programs awareness in the office of immigration and emigration at Rusizi border said that their wishes will be attended to since leadership of both countries consider citizens\u2019 desires.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeaders do every possibility to ensure free movement of citizens. Always, the immigration and emigration office wants the border to open full time but there are requirements to operate in such a way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10544 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umupaka_uhuza_rusizi_na_bukavu.jpg\" alt=\"Rusizi residents want Rwanda-DRC border opened full time \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Residents in Rusizi and Bukavu have requested for the border between the two countries to open Rusizi I border 24 hours as it recently happened to removal of night barriers of Rwanda and DRC border in Rubavu district to facilitate their trade and travels.} \u201cIt becomes complicated for a Rwandan to return late from sale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000072288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000072288,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23329.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23329.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23329.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23329.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23329.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23329.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329","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=23329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000072288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23329"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23329"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}