{"id":3375,"date":"2014-06-29T17:21:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2014-06-29T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T10:21:32","slug":"former-south-sudan-political-detainee-joins-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/former-south-sudan-political-detainee-joins-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"Former South Sudan political detainee joins rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA &#8211; A group of former South Sudanese political detainees announced on Saturday that one of their colleagues had joined the rebel Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Opposition under the leadership of former vice-president, Riek Machar.<\/p>\n<p>Former justice minister John Luk Jok said the leadership of the former detainees held a meeting on Friday to approve ambassador Ezekial Lol Gatkuoth\u2019s request to join Machar\u2019s group&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article51510\" 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>JUBA &#8211; A group of former South Sudanese political detainees announced on Saturday that one of their colleagues had joined the rebel Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Opposition under the leadership of former vice-president, Riek Machar. Former justice minister John Luk Jok said the leadership of the former detainees held a meeting on Friday [&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":[258,256,4695,257,555,254,4700,733,1861,1860],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-news","tag-riek-machar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news","tag-splm","tag-sudan-peoples-liberation-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","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=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/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=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}