{"id":38354,"date":"2014-08-11T11:47:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T11:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=38354"},"modified":"2014-08-11T11:47:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T11:47:33","slug":"central-african-republic-crisis-muslim-pm-kamoun-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=38354","title":{"rendered":"Central African Republic crisis: Muslim PM Kamoun appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">The interim president of the Central African Republic (CAR) has chosen a Muslim prime minister to head a transitional government.<\/p>\n<p>It comes in the wake of an agreement signed last month between rival militias aimed at ending more than a year of religious conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Mahamat Kamoun, an economist, is the first Muslim prime minister in the Christian-dominated country.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the population is in urgent need of assistance, the UN says.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"line\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/75306000\/jpg\/_75306515_line976.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"2\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CAR&#8217;s religious make-up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Population: 4.6 million<\/li>\n<li>Christians &#8211; 50%<\/li>\n<li>Muslims &#8211; 15%<\/li>\n<li>Indigenous beliefs &#8211; 35%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<\/em>Index Mundi<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"line\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/75306000\/jpg\/_75306515_line976.jpg\" width=\"464\" height=\"2\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An estimated 20% of inhabitants have fled their homes in the conflict which began as mainly Muslim Seleka rebels seized power in March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>This gave rise to the creation of largely Christian anti-Balaka militias and the situation descended into ethno-religious violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Seleka leader, Michel Djotodia, stood down as president in January as part of regional efforts to end the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides have been accused of war crimes such as torture and unlawful killing.<\/p>\n<p>The presence of some 7,000 international peacekeepers have struggled to stem the violence and revenge attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interim president of the Central African Republic (CAR) has chosen a Muslim prime minister to head a transitional government. It comes in the wake of an agreement signed last month between rival militias aimed at ending more than a year of religious conflict. Mahamat Kamoun, an economist, is the first Muslim prime minister in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":38359,"comment_status":"closed","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-38354","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\/38354","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}