{"id":31591,"date":"2017-01-04T23:38:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T23:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/more-than-40-killed-in-congo-fighting\/"},"modified":"2017-01-04T23:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T23:38:46","slug":"more-than-40-killed-in-congo-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/more-than-40-killed-in-congo-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 40 killed in Congo fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{About 43 people have been killed in fighting between a local militia and security forces in central Congo, Red Cross sources said Wednesday.}<\/p>\n<p>The fighting took place about 75 kilometres from Kananga, the capital of the province of Kasai Central, from Monday to Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Mouvement Politico-Coutumier militia attacked police posts to obtain weapons, local reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Red Cross sources said the fatalities included 42 militiamen and one police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The army called for reinforcements to restore order, local official Floribert Mikobi Lobo said.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people have been killed since August in attacks by the Mouvement Politico-Coutumier, an armed group targeting army installations and symbols of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{About 43 people have been killed in fighting between a local militia and security forces in central Congo, Red Cross sources said Wednesday.} The fighting took place about 75 kilometres from Kananga, the capital of the province of Kasai Central, from Monday to Wednesday. Members of the Mouvement Politico-Coutumier militia attacked police posts to obtain [&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":[2774],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-ebl-news"],"bylines":[{"id":2774,"name":"EBL News","slug":"ebl-news","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":2774,"name":"EBL News","slug":"ebl-news","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\/31591","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=31591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31591"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31591"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}