{"id":31641,"date":"2017-01-07T06:47:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T06:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gunfire-rocks-bouake-army-camp-after-troops-pay\/"},"modified":"2017-01-07T06:47:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T06:47:42","slug":"gunfire-rocks-bouake-army-camp-after-troops-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gunfire-rocks-bouake-army-camp-after-troops-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire rocks Bouake army camp after troops pay dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Gunfire erupts near main military camp in city of Bouake, where disgruntled soldiers launched a mutiny on Friday.}<\/p>\n<p>Heavy gunfire erupted early on Saturday near the main military camp in Ivory Coast&#8217;s second largest city, Bouake, where disgruntled soldiers launched an uprising a day earlier over salaries and bonuses, a resident and a soldier said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The shooting is very heavy right now at the third battalion. I&#8217;m nearby and I hear it like it was right next to us,&#8221; resident Konan Benoit told Reuters news agency by telephone, as gunfire could be heard on the line.<\/p>\n<p>The renegade soldiers have controlled the city of around a half million residents since taking up positions at key entry points early on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The army has sent reinforcements to Bouake but the defence minister said in a statement late on Friday that the government was prepared to listen to the soldiers&#8217; grievances.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what provoked the gunfire, but a member of the uprising said soldiers had seen what they considered suspicious movements outside the camp in Bouake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is gunfire to discourage them,&#8221; the unnamed soldier said.<\/p>\n<p>Similar mutinies also occurred in two of the West African nation&#8217;s other main cities on Friday as the movement appeared to spread.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17494 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/21a0fbf67c284b00b135230e29067285_18.jpg\" alt=\"Disgruntled soldiers launched the mutiny on Friday over salaries and bonuses\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Gunfire erupts near main military camp in city of Bouake, where disgruntled soldiers launched a mutiny on Friday.} Heavy gunfire erupted early on Saturday near the main military camp in Ivory Coast&#8217;s second largest city, Bouake, where disgruntled soldiers launched an uprising a day earlier over salaries and bonuses, a resident and a soldier said. [&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":[100],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","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":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","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\/31641","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=31641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31641"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31641"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}