{"id":5351,"date":"2014-09-28T17:42:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T10:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5351"},"modified":"2014-09-28T17:43:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T10:43:05","slug":"south-sudan-hangs-on-rebel-chiefs-next-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/south-sudan-hangs-on-rebel-chiefs-next-move\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan Hangs on Rebel Chief&#8217;s Next Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riek Machar earned a doctorate from a British university and in 2011 became vice president in South Sudan&#8217;s first democratic election. He now commands 100,000 rebel fighters who threaten to seize some of the world&#8217;s richest oil assets.<\/p>\n<p>As fighting continues and peace talks sputter, his next choice of direction will go a long way toward steering the conflict to a peaceful or bloody conclusion, with potentially grave consequences for the ethnically divided nation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/south-sudan-hangs-on-rebel-chiefs-next-move-1411774229\" 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>Riek Machar earned a doctorate from a British university and in 2011 became vice president in South Sudan&#8217;s first democratic election. He now commands 100,000 rebel fighters who threaten to seize some of the world&#8217;s richest oil assets. As fighting continues and peace talks sputter, his next choice of direction will go a long way [&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":[258,256,4200,4201,4695,257,4204,4202,4203,555,254,4700,733],"class_list":["post-5351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-british-university","tag-democratic-election","tag-east-africa","tag-news","tag-rebel-chief","tag-rebel-fighters","tag-richest-oil-assets","tag-riek-machar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351","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=5351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5351\/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=5351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}