{"id":46583,"date":"2022-09-08T06:56:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T06:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/burundi-s-national-assembly-approves-new-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2022-09-09T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T08:32:00","slug":"burundi-s-national-assembly-approves-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/burundi-s-national-assembly-approves-new-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi&#8217;s National Assembly approves new Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred and thirteen deputies who attended the plenary session unanimously passed Ndirakobuca&#8217;s candidature which was a unique one.<\/p>\n<p>The candidature of Gervais Ndirakobuca was sent by Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye who later in the day signed a decree appointing Gervais Ndirakobuca as the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Before this, Gervais Ndirakobuca was the minister for Interior, Community Development and Public Security since June 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He replaces Alain Guillaume Bunyoni who was accused of undermining the activities of the government.<\/p>\n<p>Bunyoni was Burundi&#8217;s Prime Minister since June 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44063 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_w_intebe_n_umugore_we_bafashe_ifoto_y_urwibutso_na_perezida_ndayishimiye-8f6b0.jpg\" alt=\"Gervais Ndirakobuca (third from left) and his wife in a group photo with President Ndayishimiye. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44062 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gervais_ndirakobuca_yasinyiye_inshingano_ze_nka_minisitiri_w_intebe_w_u_burundi-c52fd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44061 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gervais_ndirakobuca_yarahiriye_kuba_minisitiri_w_intebe_w_u_burundi-31b2a.jpg\" alt=\"Gervais Ndirakobuca  swearing in as Burundian Prime Minister.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Burundian National Assembly on Wednesday passed the candidature of Gervais Ndirakobuca as the new Prime Minister of Burundi.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","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":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","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":80}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46583","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46583"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46583"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}