{"id":3345,"date":"2014-06-29T14:57:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T07:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2014-06-29T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T07:57:44","slug":"south-sudan-contests-ranking-as-worlds-most-failed-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/south-sudan-contests-ranking-as-worlds-most-failed-state\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan contests ranking as world\u2019s most failed state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Sudan has expressed doubts over the political impartiality of international ranking institutions following the country\u2019s inclusion on a list of failed states published on 24 June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes our people begin to wonder and question the credibility and the impartiality of these ranking institutions. They (people) do not understand which indicators do these institutions use and where exactly do they get their sources of information,\u201d South Sudan\u2019s deputy parliamentary speaker, Mark Nyipuoc, told Sudan Tribune on Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article51507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"South Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/\">South Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Sudan has expressed doubts over the political impartiality of international ranking institutions following the country\u2019s inclusion on a list of failed states published on 24 June. \u201cSometimes our people begin to wonder and question the credibility and the impartiality of these ranking institutions. They (people) do not understand which indicators do these institutions use [&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":[550],"tags":[258,256,4695,1826,257,1825,254,4700,733],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-list-of-failed-states","tag-news","tag-ranking-as-worlds-most-failed-state","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","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=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/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=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}