{"id":3776,"date":"2014-07-08T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T03:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T03:28:05","slug":"south-sudan-official-orders-curfew-violators-to-be-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/south-sudan-official-orders-curfew-violators-to-be-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan Official Orders Curfew Violators to be Shot Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juba &#8211; South Sudan Interior Minister Aleu Ayieny Aleu said Monday that anyone who violates the curfew in the capital is a criminal and security officers are under orders to shoot them dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is only witches who move at night,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They steal and kill our people&#8230; Shoot them. We have to strike hard to stop this problem, so now, even civilians cannot move about at night,&#8221; Aleu said.<\/p>\n<p>The council of ministers passed the shoot-to-kill order at its most recent meeting, Aleu said.<\/p>\n<p>A curfew was imposed in Juba when fighting broke out in December. It currently runs from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., but there are reports that the authorites plan to move the start time up to 8 p.m. No one was available at the Interior Ministry to confirm or deny those reports&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/south-sudan-curfew-shoot-to-kill\/1952377.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba &#8211; South Sudan Interior Minister Aleu Ayieny Aleu said Monday that anyone who violates the curfew in the capital is a criminal and security officers are under orders to shoot them dead. &#8220;It is only witches who move at night,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They steal and kill our people&#8230; Shoot them. We have to strike [&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":[258,256,1191,2346,2348,880,257,4694,2347,254,2345,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aleu-ayieny-aleu","tag-curfew","tag-curfew-was-imposed-in-juba","tag-juba","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-shoot-to-kill-order","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan-interior-minister-aleu-ayieny-aleu","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","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=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/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=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}