{"id":3746,"date":"2014-07-07T15:21:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T08:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2014-07-07T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T08:21:43","slug":"south-sudan-president-appeals-for-african-solution-to-end-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/south-sudan-president-appeals-for-african-solution-to-end-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan president appeals for African solution to end conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA &#8211; South Sudan\u2019s president, Salva Kiir, has called on African leaders to take a leading role in the resolution of the crisis which has gripped the young nation since mid-December last year, saying the leadership looks forward to the application of African solutions for African problems.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict, which erupted in mid-December last year after a split in the ruling SPLM turned violent, has killed thousands and resulted in the widespread destruction of public infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Kiir made the remarks at the recently concluded six corridor summit held in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, during which he met with a number of regional leaders and heads of state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article51590\" 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; South Sudan\u2019s president, Salva Kiir, has called on African leaders to take a leading role in the resolution of the crisis which has gripped the young nation since mid-December last year, saying the leadership looks forward to the application of African solutions for African problems. The conflict, which erupted in mid-December last year [&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":[258,256,2317,4695,880,257,1510,254,4700,733,2316,1861],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-destruction-of-public-infrastructure","tag-east-africa","tag-juba","tag-news","tag-salva-kiir","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news","tag-south-sudans-president","tag-splm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","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=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/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=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}