{"id":2568,"date":"2014-06-13T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T03:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2014-06-14T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T03:06:12","slug":"gunfire-erupts-along-dr-congo-rwanda-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/gunfire-erupts-along-dr-congo-rwanda-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunfire Erupts Along DR Congo &#8211; Rwanda Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gunfire has erupted for a second day on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Reports from the area say soldiers exchanged fire briefly Thursday morning in a town north of Goma, the capital of Congo&#8217;s North Kivu province.<\/p>\n<p>Each side has accused the other of provoking the clashes. DRC officials say Rwandan forces crossed into North Kivu on Wednesday and kidnapped and killed a Congolese soldier.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda says Congolese forces crossed the border and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>Congo says two of its soldiers were killed in Wednesday&#8217;s fighting, while Rwanda puts the number of Congolese dead at five.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. mission in Congo has called on all parties to reduce tension and avoid further violence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DRC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/rwanda-drc-trade-blame-over-deadly-border-clash\/1935104.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News Central Africa <a title=\"DR Congo\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/\">DR Congo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunfire has erupted for a second day on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Reports from the area say soldiers exchanged fire briefly Thursday morning in a town north of Goma, the capital of Congo&#8217;s North Kivu province. Each side has accused the other of provoking the clashes. DRC officials say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[301,278,604],"tags":[258,256,4696,281,4691,450,279,257,605,4702,254,606],"class_list":["post-2568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-africa","category-dr-congo","category-rwanda","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central-africa","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-dr-congo","tag-dr-congo-news","tag-drc","tag-news","tag-north-kivu-province","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}