{"id":4871,"date":"2014-08-18T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2014-08-18T15:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T08:02:38","slug":"rebel-gunmen-kill-34-in-central-african-republic-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/rebel-gunmen-kill-34-in-central-african-republic-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel gunmen kill 34 in Central African Republic &#8211; officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangui (Reuters) &#8211; Rebels armed with guns and knives killed 34 people in Central African Republic, hanging some civilians and slitting others&#8217; throats in a series of attacks this week, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters from the Seleka insurgent group, sometimes backed by herdsmen, raided small central settlements, said authorities, more than a year after a coup plunged the impoverished country into sectarian violence.<\/p>\n<p>Seleka, a coalition of mostly Muslim fighters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Central African Republic News\" href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idAFKBN0GH08120140817\" 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>Bangui (Reuters) &#8211; Rebels armed with guns and knives killed 34 people in Central African Republic, hanging some civilians and slitting others&#8217; throats in a series of attacks this week, officials said. Fighters from the Seleka insurgent group, sometimes backed by herdsmen, raided small central settlements, said authorities, more than a year after a coup [&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":[258,256,306,465,302,4696,4689,303,3639,537,257,313,3638,3640,254],"class_list":["post-4871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-african-republic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks","tag-bangui","tag-car","tag-central-africa","tag-central-african-republic","tag-central-african-republic-news","tag-hanging-some-civilians","tag-muslim-fighters","tag-news","tag-seleka","tag-seleka-insurgent-group","tag-slitting-others-throats","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871","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=4871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4871\/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=4871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}