{"id":8636,"date":"2013-06-23T07:48:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T07:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-africa-deploys-1-345-soldiers-in-drc\/"},"modified":"2013-06-23T07:48:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T07:48:32","slug":"south-africa-deploys-1-345-soldiers-in-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-africa-deploys-1-345-soldiers-in-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa Deploys 1,345 Soldiers in DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{South African troops have begun deploying to the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s volatile east as part of a special United Nations brigade to battle armed rebels, a junior minister told media.}}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth African troops are on their way to the DRC now,\u201d deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Ebrahim told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has pledged 1,345 soldiers to the first-ever offensive United Nations brigade.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania and Malawi are also part of the 3,000-strong force, which began deploying to Goma on May 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tanzanians are already on the ground,\u201d said Ebrahim.<\/p>\n<p>{{wirestory}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{South African troops have begun deploying to the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s volatile east as part of a special United Nations brigade to battle armed rebels, a junior minister told media.}} \u201cSouth African troops are on their way to the DRC now,\u201d deputy foreign minister Ebrahim Ebrahim told reporters. South Africa has pledged 1,345 soldiers [&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":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","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\/8636","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=8636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}