{"id":4256,"date":"2014-07-18T12:47:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T05:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2014-07-18T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T05:47:11","slug":"over-300-armed-youth-join-south-sudan-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/over-300-armed-youth-join-south-sudan-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 300 armed youth join South Sudan rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juba &#8211; Over 300 armed youth from South Sudan\u2019s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state on Wednesday announced they were joining the country\u2019s rebellion led by former vice-president Riek Machar.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune, the group said they had chosen armed struggle to \u201crescue the country from disintegrating into tribal units and restore national pride and under a new federal system\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The group, all of whom are well armed, are said to be from the home guards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur decision to join the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement and Army in Opposition is essentially rooted for our desire to preserve national pride and one identity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article51715\" 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; Over 300 armed youth from South Sudan\u2019s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state on Wednesday announced they were joining the country\u2019s rebellion led by former vice-president Riek Machar. In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune, the group said they had chosen armed struggle to \u201crescue the country from disintegrating into tribal units and restore [&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":[258,256,2940,4695,257,2939,2941,555,254,4700,733,1860],"class_list":["post-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chosen-armed-struggle","tag-east-africa","tag-news","tag-northern-bahr-el-ghazal-state","tag-preserve-national-pride","tag-riek-machar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news","tag-sudan-peoples-liberation-movement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","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=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/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=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}