{"id":4421,"date":"2014-07-23T19:57:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2014-07-23T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:57:34","slug":"dr-congo-repels-attack-on-kinshasa-barracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/dr-congo-repels-attack-on-kinshasa-barracks\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo ‘repels’ attack on Kinshasa barracks"},"content":{"rendered":"

An attack on the military barracks of the presidential guards in Kinshasa has been repulsed, the Democratic Republic of Congo government has said.<\/p>\n

The situation is now under control and a small group of “infiltrators” defeated, the government said.<\/p>\n

Heavy gunfire earlier rang out from Camp Tshatshi for about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

DR Congo has a history of instability, with President Joseph Kabila taking power following the assassination of his father, Laurent, in 2001.<\/p>\n

The authorities have not said who was behind the attack.<\/p>\n

Residents were evacuated from the area around Camp Tshatshi and the international airport was reportedly closed.<\/p>\n

An unnamed presidential guard officer told the AFP news agency that about 20 people wearing civilian clothes had been overpowered…<\/p>\n

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An attack on the military barracks of the presidential guards in Kinshasa has been repulsed, the Democratic Republic of Congo government has said. The situation is now under control and a small group of “infiltrators” defeated, the government said. Heavy gunfire earlier rang out from Camp Tshatshi for about 30 minutes. DR Congo has a […]<\/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":[278],"tags":[258,256,3149,4696,281,4691,450,279,3043,3150,257,3151,254],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dr-congo","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-camp-tshatshi","tag-central-africa","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-dr-congo","tag-dr-congo-news","tag-drc","tag-international-airport","tag-joseph-kabila","tag-news","tag-presidential-guard-officer","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","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=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/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=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}