{"id":5355,"date":"2014-09-28T17:49:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T10:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2014-09-28T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T10:50:14","slug":"terrorism-ebola-are-impeding-development-dr-congo-chief-tells-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/terrorism-ebola-are-impeding-development-dr-congo-chief-tells-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism, Ebola are impeding development, DR Congo chief tells UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 September 2014 \u2013 President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) warned the United Nations today that global development was threatened by terrorism and the resurgence of the Ebola epidemic, pledging his country\u2019s contribution to international efforts to combat the scourges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollectively confronting [terrorism] is a moral obligation for all the Member States of our Organization as well as the only effective strategy if we want to rid ourselves surely and speedily of this atrocity,\u201d he told leaders of 193 countries on the second day of the UN General Assembly\u2019s 69th annual General Debate, referring to terrorist violence in Africa&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DR Congo News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=48870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Democratic Republic of Congo\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 September 2014 \u2013 President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) warned the United Nations today that global development was threatened by terrorism and the resurgence of the Ebola epidemic, pledging his country\u2019s contribution to international efforts to combat the scourges. \u201cCollectively confronting [terrorism] is a moral obligation for all the Member [&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":[278],"tags":[258,256,4696,281,4691,450,279,1111,3150,257,254,576,4206,4205,309],"class_list":["post-5355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dr-congo","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central-africa","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-dr-congo","tag-dr-congo-news","tag-drc","tag-ebola","tag-joseph-kabila","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorist-violence-in-africa","tag-un-general-assembly","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355","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=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/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=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}