{"id":50016,"date":"2024-02-16T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T11:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-africa-s-controversial-troop-deployment-to-drc-sparks-debate\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T11:40:13","slug":"south-africa-s-controversial-troop-deployment-to-drc-sparks-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-africa-s-controversial-troop-deployment-to-drc-sparks-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s controversial troop deployment to DRC sparks debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ramaphosa argues the deployment aligns with Southern African Development Community (SADC) defense commitments to combat armed groups in the DRC, emphasizing such missions are prone to casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, Malema criticizes the move, citing the South African military&#8217;s alleged lack of readiness and proper equipment, suggesting the African National Congress (ANC) has weakened the nation&#8217;s armed forces. <\/p>\n<p>He also points to soldiers&#8217; complaints about insufficient provisions, questioning the effectiveness of a hungry army in combat.<\/p>\n<p>This military engagement, costing two billion rands, is a substantial financial and human investment, highlighting deep divisions within South African society and its political landscape over international military interventions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-63690\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/webp\/south.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{In South Africa, the announcement of deploying 2,900 troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has ignited a dispute between President Cyril Ramaphosa and Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) opposition party.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000063689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-50016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","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":{"id":2000063689,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/m_r.webp","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/m_r.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/m_r.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/m_r.webp","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/m_r.webp","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/m_r.webp","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50016","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=50016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000063689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50016"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=50016"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=50016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}