{"id":3749,"date":"2014-07-08T08:33:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T01:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2014-07-08T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T01:33:27","slug":"clashes-erupt-in-central-african-republic-as-french-minister-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/clashes-erupt-in-central-african-republic-as-french-minister-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashes erupt in Central African Republic as French minister visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s defence minister warned Monday that violence in the Central African Republic was becoming &#8220;more serious&#8221; as he started a visit to the former French colony, amid reports of more deadly clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Yves Le Drian said political efforts to end the bloody conflict have stalled despite the election of a new leader six months ago, and the deadlock has further inflamed tensions between Christians and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The settlement to all this can only be political, yet politics have broken down,&#8221; he told AFP before arriving in the capital Bangui on Monday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Central African Republic News\" href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/2\/9\/105720\/World\/International\/Deadly-clashes-erupt-in-CAfrica-as-French-minister.aspx\" 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>France&#8217;s defence minister warned Monday that violence in the Central African Republic was becoming &#8220;more serious&#8221; as he started a visit to the former French colony, amid reports of more deadly clashes. Jean-Yves Le Drian said political efforts to end the bloody conflict have stalled despite the election of a new leader six months ago, [&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":[258,256,465,2320,302,4696,4689,303,322,2318,2321,2319,323,257,254],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-african-republic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bangui","tag-bloody-conflict","tag-car","tag-central-africa","tag-central-african-republic","tag-central-african-republic-news","tag-christians","tag-deadly-clashes","tag-french-minister","tag-jean-yves-le-drian","tag-muslims","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","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=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/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=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}