{"id":23397,"date":"2016-02-21T07:12:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T07:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-speaks-on-burundi\/"},"modified":"2016-02-22T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T23:53:08","slug":"kagame-speaks-on-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-speaks-on-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame speaks on Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The political instability in Burundi is becoming more severe and its effects over-spilling. Since the beginning of the Burundi security crisis following President Pierre Nkurunziza\u2019s decision to run for another term, Burundi has been alleging Rwanda to be behind the crisis, an accusation Rwanda has called false.}<\/p>\n<p>In a message President Paul Kagame delivered through his twitter account, he talked about what is taking place in Burundi and said that as an African from Rwanda is worried over people who don\u2019t learn from history.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame wrote;  \u201cNo amount of provocation is going to draw us into this\u2026and not any solution is going to come from it\u2026Whoever assisted Burundi leaders on this, even from afar has only added misery to the tragedy. Can only wonder why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs usual \u2026when the toll will be finally counted and found to be too high and questions asked about responsibility to protect, simple answer \u2018we did not know\u2026\u2019Read \u2018we did not want to know\u2019..The argument will go on and on\u2026and life will continue to be lost \u2026instead of never again\u2026we have \u2026yet-again!!!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Over 75,000 Burundi refugees have fled to Rwanda since the beginning of the security crisis in Burundi in May last year. However, Burundi government recently accused Rwanda of training refugees with an alleged intention of overthrowing the leadership of President Nkurunziza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The political instability in Burundi is becoming more severe and its effects over-spilling. Since the beginning of the Burundi security crisis following President Pierre Nkurunziza\u2019s decision to run for another term, Burundi has been alleging Rwanda to be behind the crisis, an accusation Rwanda has called false.} In a message President Paul Kagame delivered through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000072354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23397","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":2000072354,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23397.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23397.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23397.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23397.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23397.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton23397.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397","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=23397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000072354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23397"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23397"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}