{"id":3470,"date":"2014-07-01T20:42:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3470"},"modified":"2014-07-01T20:43:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:43:04","slug":"ugandan-troops-in-the-central-african-republic-killed-11-seleka-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/ugandan-troops-in-the-central-african-republic-killed-11-seleka-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan troops in the Central African Republic killed 11 Seleka fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan troops deployed in the Central African Republic (CAR) have killed 11 Seleka fighters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We killed 11 rebels, including a colonel who was commanding the group,&#8221; Uganda People\u2019s Defense Forces (UPDF) spokesman Says Lt Col Paddy Ankunda told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also are now in possession of their guns and a satellite phone,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They attacked our squad in Zako on Sunday and they injured our soldier who has since died,&#8221; Ankunda said.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandan troops are part of a 5,000-strong African Union regional force hunting down rebels from Uganda&#8217;s Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army (LRA) taking advantage of the lawlessness in CAR.<\/p>\n<p>The troops are reportedly supported by 100 members of the U.S. Special Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The LRA rebels are scattered across a thick mass of forests in CAR and some neighboring countries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Central African Republic News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbulletin.net\/news\/139813\/ugandan-army-says-killed-11-seleka-fighters-in-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Central African Republic\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/\">Central African Republic<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan troops deployed in the Central African Republic (CAR) have killed 11 Seleka fighters. &#8220;We killed 11 rebels, including a colonel who was commanding the group,&#8221; Uganda People\u2019s Defense Forces (UPDF) spokesman Says Lt Col Paddy Ankunda told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday morning. &#8220;We also are now in possession of their guns and a satellite [&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":[252],"tags":[258,256,1961,302,4696,4689,303,1964,1962,1963,257,313,1047,254,1965,1027,1958,1959,1960],"class_list":["post-3470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-african-republic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union-regional-force","tag-car","tag-central-africa","tag-central-african-republic","tag-central-african-republic-news","tag-lawlessness-in-car","tag-lords-resistance-army","tag-lra","tag-news","tag-seleka","tag-seleka-fighters","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-special-forces","tag-uganda-peoples-defense-forces","tag-ugandan-troops","tag-updf","tag-zako"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470","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=3470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3470\/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=3470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}