{"id":4213,"date":"2014-07-17T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2014-07-17T18:24:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T11:24:16","slug":"central-african-republic-death-toll-could-exceed-previous-estimates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/central-african-republic-death-toll-could-exceed-previous-estimates\/","title":{"rendered":"Central African Republic death toll could exceed previous estimates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting in Central African Republic (CAR) may have claimed more lives than previously thought because many Muslim victims were never taken to state hospitals and families buried their dead at home amid security fears, according to aid workers.<\/p>\n<p>Violence escalated in the former French colony after the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted the government of President Fran\u00e7ois Boziz\u00e9 in March 2013 and the Seleka leader, Michel Djotodia, declared himself president of the majority Christian country.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e9decins sans Fronti\u00e8res said on Wednesday that a survey of nearly 33,000 Central African refugees in neighbouring Chad revealed that 8% of those questioned had experienced the death of at least one member of their family&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Central African Republic News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2014\/jul\/16\/central-african-republic-death-toll-msf\" 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>Fighting in Central African Republic (CAR) may have claimed more lives than previously thought because many Muslim victims were never taken to state hospitals and families buried their dead at home amid security fears, according to aid workers. Violence escalated in the former French colony after the mainly Muslim Seleka rebels ousted the government 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":[252],"tags":[258,256,302,4696,4689,303,2535,2886,1950,472,463,2779,2885,257,1219,313,254],"class_list":["post-4213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-african-republic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-car","tag-central-africa","tag-central-african-republic","tag-central-african-republic-news","tag-francois-bozize","tag-majority-christian-country","tag-medecins-sans-frontieres","tag-michel-djotodia","tag-muslim","tag-muslim-seleka-rebels","tag-muslim-seleka-rebels-ousted-the-government","tag-news","tag-refugees","tag-seleka","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213","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=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/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=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}