{"id":5871,"date":"2026-07-01T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5871"},"modified":"2025-12-14T00:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:31:16","slug":"burundi-and-rwanda-celebrate-independence-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5871","title":{"rendered":"Burundi and Rwanda Celebrate Independence Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Burundi and the Republic of Rwanda both celebrate their Independence Days<\/strong>. Belgium gave up control of both countries in 1962.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25712\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25712\" class=\"wp-image-25712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Burundi-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"131\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Burundi<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Burundi<\/strong>, according to the<em> CIA World Factbook<\/em>, is about the size of Maryland. This landlocked country in central Africa is covered by mountains with an eastern plateau. It borders Lake Tanganyika. The tropical climate means that coffee and tea can be exported. Almost eleven million people live in Burundi, and Bujumbura is the capital.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Rwanda-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"118\" \/>Republic of Rwanda<\/strong> is also about the size of Maryland and is also landlocked. The climate is temperate, and geography is mostly grassy uplands. Subsistence agriculture and mining are the major occupations for the twelve million inhabitants. Kigali is the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi and the Republic of Rwanda both celebrate their Independence Days. Belgium gave up control of both countries in 1962. Burundi, according to the CIA World Factbook, is about the size of Maryland. This landlocked country in central Africa is covered by mountains with an eastern plateau. It borders Lake Tanganyika. The tropical climate means <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5871' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4448,513,510,512,5674,511],"class_list":["post-5871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4448","tag-belgium","tag-burundi","tag-independence-days","tag-july-1","tag-republic-of-rwanda","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30130,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions\/30130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}