{"id":3466,"date":"2014-07-01T19:15:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T12:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2014-07-01T19:15:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T12:15:52","slug":"dr-congo-places-new-visa-restrictions-on-rwandans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/dr-congo-places-new-visa-restrictions-on-rwandans\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo places new visa restrictions on Rwandans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUBAVU, Rwanda &#8211; The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week introduced a new Visa policy targeting Rwandans, which regional officials say affects more than 36,000 travelers from both Countries who cross the border daily.<\/p>\n<p>The abrupt visa changes include three new categories; $30 per year will be charged on Rwandan students crossing the border to study in DR Congo, $50 on small traders every 3 months and $250 every Month for the working class.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda reacted with dismay to the changes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DR Congo News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eturbonews.com\/47486\/democratic-republic-congo-places-new-visa-restrictions-rwandans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Democratic Republic of Congo\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUBAVU, Rwanda &#8211; The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week introduced a new Visa policy targeting Rwandans, which regional officials say affects more than 36,000 travelers from both Countries who cross the border daily. The abrupt visa changes include three new categories; $30 per year will be charged on Rwandan students crossing the border [&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":[278,604],"tags":[258,256,4696,281,4691,450,279,1955,1954,257,4702,254,1956,1957],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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-new-visa-policy","tag-new-visa-policy-targeting-rwandans","tag-news","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visa","tag-visa-changes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","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=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/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=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}