{"id":189943,"date":"2025-01-29T04:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/congo-kinshasa-ruto-calls-urgent-summit-to-address-escalating-crisis-in-eastern-drc\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T04:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T02:27:11","slug":"congo-kinshasa-ruto-calls-urgent-summit-to-address-escalating-crisis-in-eastern-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/congo-kinshasa-ruto-calls-urgent-summit-to-address-escalating-crisis-in-eastern-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo-Kinshasa: Ruto Calls Urgent Summit to Address Escalating Crisis in Eastern DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">It comes after M23 rebels captured the key city of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, overnight and closed all access routes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Kenyan President and Chairperson of the East African Community (EAC), William Ruto, has convened an extraordinary summit to address the deepening crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The emergency meeting, set to take place in Nairobi within 48 hours, will bring together regional leaders, including Rwandan President Paul Kagame and DR Congo President F\u00e9lix&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501280675.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It comes after M23 rebels captured the key city of Goma, the capital of North Kivu Province, overnight and closed all access routes. Kenyan President and Chairperson of the East African Community (EAC), William Ruto, has convened an extraordinary summit to address the deepening crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The emergency meeting, set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":189944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[7325,258,256,6137,8386,3723,279,7152,17987,430,257,11238,254,5757,11318],"class_list":["post-189943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-congokinshasa","tag-crisis","tag-drc","tag-eastern","tag-escalating","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit","tag-urgent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}