{"id":31506,"date":"2017-01-01T03:35:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T03:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/burundi-environment-minister-niyonkuru-shot-dead\/"},"modified":"2017-01-01T03:35:45","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T03:35:45","slug":"burundi-environment-minister-niyonkuru-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/burundi-environment-minister-niyonkuru-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi environment minister Niyonkuru shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Burundi&#8217;s environment minister has been shot dead while on his way home on New Year&#8217;s Eve.}<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, was killed at about 00:45 local time (22:45 GMT) by &#8220;a criminal with a gun&#8221;, a police spokesman tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Tweets from Pierre Nkurikiye said a woman who was with Mr Niyonkuru had been detained for questioning, following the &#8220;assassination&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Burundi&#8217;s President Pierre Nkurunziza said the crime would not go unpunished.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people, including high-ranking army officials, have been killed in unrest since President Pierre Nkurunziza ran for a third term in 2015, a move which opponents said was unconstitutional. But this is the first time a serving government minister has been killed.<\/p>\n<p>For months the country had been relatively calm.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17391 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_93196448_emmanuelniyonkuru.jpg\" alt=\"Emmanuel Niyonkuru was on his way home when he was shot\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Burundi&#8217;s environment minister has been shot dead while on his way home on New Year&#8217;s Eve.} Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, was killed at about 00:45 local time (22:45 GMT) by &#8220;a criminal with a gun&#8221;, a police spokesman tweeted. Tweets from Pierre Nkurikiye said a woman who was with Mr Niyonkuru had been detained for questioning, [&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":[99],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","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":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","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":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506","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=31506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31506"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31506"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}