{"id":29550,"date":"2016-10-19T05:31:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T05:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/congo-capital-quiet-following-opposition-call-for\/"},"modified":"2016-10-19T05:31:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T05:31:23","slug":"congo-capital-quiet-following-opposition-call-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/congo-capital-quiet-following-opposition-call-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo capital quiet following opposition call for general strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The streets of Congo&#8217;s capital Kinshasa were quiet on Wednesday and little traffic flowed following a call by the main opposition bloc for a general strike to press President Joseph Kabila to step down in December.<\/p>\n<p>Kabila&#8217;s two-term mandate expires in December, but authorities agreed this week to postpone an election originally slated for November until April 2018.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15840 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/download-4.jpg\" alt=\"Activists for the Union for Democracy and Social Progress, Democratic Republic of Congo&#039;s largest opposition party, show &#039;yellow cards&#039; to express their view against the delay in presidential election, in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, October 18, 2016. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The streets of Congo&#8217;s capital Kinshasa were quiet on Wednesday and little traffic flowed following a call by the main opposition bloc for a general strike to press President Joseph Kabila to step down in December. Kabila&#8217;s two-term mandate expires in December, but authorities agreed this week to postpone an election originally slated for November [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99],"byline":[2482],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-reuters"],"bylines":[{"id":2482,"name":"REUTERS","slug":"reuters","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2482,"name":"REUTERS","slug":"reuters","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29550","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=29550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29550"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29550"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}