{"id":4375,"date":"2014-07-22T13:43:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T06:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2014-07-22T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T06:43:34","slug":"no-peace-in-sight-in-central-african-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/no-peace-in-sight-in-central-african-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"No peace in sight in Central African Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feuding Seleka and anti-Balaka militias were set to meet on Monday (21.07.2014) in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, at a National Reconciliation Forum.<\/p>\n<p>The aim was to draw up a ceasefire agreement. That was the plan, at least. But as soon as the venue was announced, civil society representatives threatened to boycott the negotiations. &#8220;The political and religious leaders find it inappropriate that Central African&#8217;s problems should be solved in Brazzaville,&#8221; a statement said.<\/p>\n<p>There could be dificulties for the Muslim Seleka if the talks are held outside the CAR. Last Saturday (12.07.2014) Seleka rebels re-elected Michael Djotodia as their leader.<\/p>\n<p>In Match 2013, Djotodia, overthrew the then President Francois Bozize and he declared himself head of state. The country sank in chaos and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Seleka militias were officially disbanded but continued to spread fear and terror throughout the country. Anti-Balaka vigilantes, who are mainly Christian, responded by attacking Muslims&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Central African Republic News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/no-peace-in-sight-in-central-african-republic\/a-17798098\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feuding Seleka and anti-Balaka militias were set to meet on Monday (21.07.2014) in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, at a National Reconciliation Forum. The aim was to draw up a ceasefire agreement. That was the plan, at least. But as soon as the venue was announced, civil society representatives threatened to boycott [&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":[258,256,316,302,4696,4689,303,464,3104,3103,257,313,254],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-african-republic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anti-balaka","tag-car","tag-central-africa","tag-central-african-republic","tag-central-african-republic-news","tag-christian","tag-michael-djotodia","tag-muslim-seleka","tag-news","tag-seleka","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","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=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/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=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}