{"id":46019,"date":"2022-06-18T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/drc-orders-shutdown-of-borders-with-rwanda-at-3p-m\/"},"modified":"2022-06-20T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T07:36:12","slug":"drc-orders-shutdown-of-borders-with-rwanda-at-3p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/drc-orders-shutdown-of-borders-with-rwanda-at-3p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC orders shutdown of borders with Rwanda at 3p.m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of Immigration and Emigration in North Kivu, Ngoy Mukalay has told members of the press that the directive went into effect from Friday 17th June 2022. <\/p>\n<p>The close at 3p.m. follows a cross-border incident where a Congolese soldier stormed Rwandan territory with a rapid fire and injured two policemen before he was shot dead by Rwandan security forces on guard. <\/p>\n<p>Tension between Rwanda and DRC has escalated following the resurgence of M23 in clashes with Congolese Army. <\/p>\n<p>DRC accuses Rwanda of supporting the rebel group but Rwanda has repeatedly refuted these claims and asked the country to seek a solution to its internal matters without dragging it into the war.  <\/p>\n<p>M23 has so far captured Bunagana town bordering with Uganda. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42845 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton154722.jpg\" alt=\"DRC has ordered the shutdown of borders with Rwanda at 3p.m. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has decided to close its borders with Rwanda at 3:00 p.m. instead of the daily closing time of 10 p.m.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46019","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46019"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46019"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}