{"id":26531,"date":"2016-07-01T10:28:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T10:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gakenke-hit-hard-by-natural-disasters\/"},"modified":"2016-07-16T08:17:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T08:17:57","slug":"gakenke-hit-hard-by-natural-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gakenke-hit-hard-by-natural-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Gakenke hit hard by natural disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Northern Province has been hit by disasters where landslides have affected Gakenke residents leaving many houses and more than 1600 hectares of arable land destroyed in May,2016.}<\/p>\n<p>Such calamities have left Gakenke residents in despair and famine due poor harvest.<br \/>\nTalking to journalists yesterday, the governor of Northern Province Bosenibamwe Aim\u00e9 comforted citizens saying that they will not starve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not starve since we have food reserves to feed us till the next harvesting season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bosenibamwe said that expected harvest will tremendously reduce and may affect other districts buying foods in Northern Province.<\/p>\n<p>He urged Northern Province residents against misusing harvested food.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Bosenibamwe comforted residents, they have expressed worries of crops failure since their lands were ravaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been hit hard by disasters .My house was destroyed and my livestock were carried by landslides. My planted bananas and beans were plunged under soil.I expect no harvest,\u201d said Ndayambaje Alexis, a Gakenke resident who talked to IGIHE.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13183 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/floods-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gakenke landslides have ravaged houses leaving 1600 hectares of arable land destroyed in May,2016\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Northern Province has been hit by disasters where landslides have affected Gakenke residents leaving many houses and more than 1600 hectares of arable land destroyed in May,2016.} Such calamities have left Gakenke residents in despair and famine due poor harvest. Talking to journalists yesterday, the governor of Northern Province Bosenibamwe Aim\u00e9 comforted citizens saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26531","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=26531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26531"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26531"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}