{"id":4029,"date":"2014-07-13T14:03:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T07:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2014-07-13T14:03:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T07:03:13","slug":"south-sudanese-rebel-leader-in-djibouti-on-diplomatic-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/south-sudanese-rebel-leader-in-djibouti-on-diplomatic-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudanese rebel leader in Djibouti on diplomatic tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa &#8211; South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar is in Djibouti on the fourth leg of an ongoing diplomatic tour in the region to explain the position of his group and galvanise support for the peace process, which is being mediated by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).<\/p>\n<p>The former vice-president and head of the armed opposition faction of the South Sudan\u2019s ruling Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM-In-Opposition), is expected to meet president Ismail Omar Guelleh.<\/p>\n<p>Rebel leader\u2019s spokesman James Gatdet Dak said the opposition faction\u2019s delegation arrived in Djibouti on Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Djibouti News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article51662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa &#8211; South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar is in Djibouti on the fourth leg of an ongoing diplomatic tour in the region to explain the position of his group and galvanise support for the peace process, which is being mediated by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). The former vice-president and head of [&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":[567,550],"tags":[258,256,4701,568,4695,554,1852,257,555,254,1861],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-east-africa","tag-igad","tag-intergovernmental-authority-on-development","tag-news","tag-riek-machar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-splm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","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=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/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=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}