{"id":4841,"date":"2014-08-16T15:47:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T08:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2014-08-16T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T08:48:04","slug":"guinea-flattens-shanty-town-to-combat-ebola-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-flattens-shanty-town-to-combat-ebola-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea flattens shanty town to combat Ebola spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Guinea are taking radical action to fight the spread of the deadly Ebola virus.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces in Conakry, the capital of the west African state, have demolished a shantytown following the declaration of a public health state of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after President Alpha Conde said cleanliness was key to fighting the outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people in three countries across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Conakry is considered to be one of the dirtiest cities in West Africa, due, in part, to a lack of education amongst its residents and a political divide that has resulted in rubbish being dumped on the streets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Guinea News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2014\/08\/15\/guinea-flattens-shanty-town-to-combat-ebola-spread\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Guinea are taking radical action to fight the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. Security forces in Conakry, the capital of the west African state, have demolished a shantytown following the declaration of a public health state of emergency. It comes after President Alpha Conde said cleanliness was key to fighting the outbreak [&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":[1118],"tags":[258,256,1235,3296,1111,1110,4715,1124,257,3591,254,1112,4692,3590],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conakry","tag-deadly-ebola-virus","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-news","tag-president-alpha-conde","tag-south-africa-today","tag-virus","tag-west-africa","tag-west-african-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","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=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/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=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}