{"id":32175,"date":"2026-04-16T20:58:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32175"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:59:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:59:03","slug":"burundi-communications-minister-dies-presidency-blames-accident","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/burundi-communications-minister-dies-presidency-blames-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi communications Minister dies, Presidency blames accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Burundi&#8217;s Communications Minister, Gabby Bugaga, died \u200b<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">this Thursday<\/span><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\"> in \u200cwhat the presidency described as an accident, without giving \u200bfurther details of \u200bthe incident.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Unverified videos and photos \u2060circulating on social \u200bmedia showed Bugaga&#8217;s body \u200bin a battered pickup truck on the side of the \u200broad.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We are deeply \u200bsaddened by the news,&#8221; President Evariste \u200cNdayishimiye \u2060wrote on X. &#8220;May God receive him and reward him for the \u200bcourage, diligence \u200band \u2060dedication that characterized him in all \u200bhis duties to \u200bserve \u2060the country.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Bugaga, a former Journalist, was appointed Minister\u00a0\u2060in \u200bAugust, 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22584,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-32175","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Bugaga, a former Journalist, was appointed Minister \u2060in \u200bAugust, 2025.","published_date":"","news_description":"Bugaga, a former Journalist, was appointed Minister \u2060in \u200bAugust, 2025.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32206,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32175\/revisions\/32206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}