{"id":134677,"date":"2015-07-15T10:56:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T10:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=134677"},"modified":"2015-07-15T08:58:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T08:58:43","slug":"europe-helped-fund-car-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=134677","title":{"rendered":"Europe &#8216;helped fund&#8217; CAR conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">European timber companies have helped fund the war in the Central African Republic through lucrative deals with militia groups, campaign group Global Witness alleges in a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Traders in France and Germany paid more than $4m (\u00a32.5m) to rebel groups accused of war crimes, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>It accuses the EU of failing to stop imports of illegal timber to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people have been killed in the conflict which followed a coup by the Seleka rebel group in March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European timber companies have helped fund the war in the Central African Republic through lucrative deals with militia groups, campaign group Global Witness alleges in a new report. Traders in France and Germany paid more than $4m (\u00a32.5m) to rebel groups accused of war crimes, the report says. It accuses the EU of failing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":134678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-134677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}