{"id":6710,"date":"2013-03-25T03:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/seleka-rebel-leader-declares-himself-car\/"},"modified":"2013-03-25T03:24:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T03:24:23","slug":"seleka-rebel-leader-declares-himself-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/seleka-rebel-leader-declares-himself-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Seleka Rebel leader Declares Himself CAR President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of rebels in Central African Republic will keep a power-sharing government named under a January peace deal after declaring himself president, a spokesman for the insurgents said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Seleka leader Michel Djotodia toppled Francois Bozize on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current prime minister remains in place and the cabinet will be slightly reshuffled,&#8221; Eric Massi said by telephone. &#8220;Bangui is under our control and calm but we have things to do on the ground in terms of security. Looting must be stopped.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Djotodia had been named deputy prime minister after January&#8217;s peace deal, signed in the Gabonese capital Libreville, which created a power-sharing government composed of rebels, civilian opposition and Bozize loyalists.<\/p>\n<p>The rebels accused Bozize of breaking the agreement and launched hostilities on Thursday, quickly sweeping south to seize the capital of the mineral-rich former French colony.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2228 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sel.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Left}-Seleka leader Michel Djotodia toppled Francois Bozize-{Right}<\/p>\n<p>{reuters}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of rebels in Central African Republic will keep a power-sharing government named under a January peace deal after declaring himself president, a spokesman for the insurgents said on Monday. Seleka leader Michel Djotodia toppled Francois Bozize on Sunday. &#8220;The current prime minister remains in place and the cabinet will be slightly reshuffled,&#8221; Eric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","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\/6710","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}