{"id":5567,"date":"2015-02-05T18:23:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T11:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2015-02-05T18:23:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T11:23:50","slug":"grenades-cheaper-than-a-coke-in-central-african-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/central-african-republic\/grenades-cheaper-than-a-coke-in-central-african-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Grenades Cheaper Than a Coke in Central African Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Bloomberg) — As Captain Victor leads a team of Spanish special forces on a night patrol in the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, one thing worries him most: Chinese-made hand grenades that sell for less than a soft drink.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLocals use hand grenades because they are very cheap, they are cheaper than a can of Coke,\u201d Victor, 29, said as he adjusted his helmet and night-vision goggles. He and other troops spoke on condition that their last names weren\u2019t used because their military\u2019s policy prohibited it…<\/p>\n

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(Bloomberg) — As Captain Victor leads a team of Spanish special forces on a night patrol in the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, one thing worries him most: Chinese-made hand grenades that sell for less than a soft drink. \u201cLocals use hand grenades because they are very cheap, they are cheaper than 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":[252],"tags":[258,256,302,4696,4689,303,435,4424,4423,4425,257,254],"class_list":["post-5567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-central-african-republic","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-car","tag-central-africa","tag-central-african-republic","tag-central-african-republic-news","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-hand-grenades","tag-chinese-made-hand-grenades","tag-hand-grenades","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567","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=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/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=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}