{"id":160360,"date":"2024-05-20T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T05:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/?p=160360"},"modified":"2024-05-20T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T05:35:08","slug":"congo-army-thwarts-alleged-coup-attempt-arrests-perpetrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/congo-army-thwarts-alleged-coup-attempt-arrests-perpetrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo Army Thwarts Alleged Coup Attempt, Arrests Perpetrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congo&#8217;s military claims to have halted a coup on May 19, arresting several individuals, including foreigners, after an armed confrontation in Kinshasa. The clash, initially involving soldiers reportedly linked to opposition leader Christian Malanga, resulted in three fatalities. President Felix Tshisekedi, reelected amid controversy, faces internal party turmoil and postponed parliamentary leadership elections. Despite the incident, the situation is reportedly under control. Malanga, in exile, issued threats against Tshisekedi in a video. Tshisekedi, yet to comment, previously warned of dissolving the National Assembly amidst political tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congo&#8217;s military claims to have halted a coup on May 19, arresting several individuals, including foreigners, after an armed confrontation in Kinshasa. The clash, initially involving soldiers reportedly linked to opposition leader Christian Malanga, resulted in three fatalities. President Felix Tshisekedi, reelected amid controversy, faces internal party turmoil and postponed parliamentary leadership elections. Despite the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":160913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160917,"href":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160360\/revisions\/160917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affairsace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}