{"id":383549,"date":"2017-12-15T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=383549"},"modified":"2017-12-15T09:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T09:55:20","slug":"senegal-air-traffic-control-strike-new-dakar-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=383549","title":{"rendered":"Senegal air traffic control strike at new Dakar airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Flights at the new Dakar international airport in Senegal have been disrupted by an air traffic controllers&#8217; strike, just a week after it opened.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-hour strike, which began at midnight GMT on Thursday, is about working conditions. Hundreds of passengers have been affected.<\/p>\n<p>Several flights have been cancelled, others were re-routed to The Gambia.<\/p>\n<p>The Blaise Diagne International Airport cost more than $600m (\u00a3447m) to build, replacing an ageing facility.<\/p>\n<p>Trade union leader Paul Francois Gomis told the BBC that staff wanted compensation for long travel times to the airport, which is 50km (31 miles) from the capital.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the 60 air traffic controllers had not been trained in the use of new equipment in the new control tower.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flights at the new Dakar international airport in Senegal have been disrupted by an air traffic controllers&#8217; strike, just a week after it opened. The 24-hour strike, which began at midnight GMT on Thursday, is about working conditions. Hundreds of passengers have been affected. Several flights have been cancelled, others were re-routed to The Gambia. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":383557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[2526],"class_list":["post-383549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383549","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=383549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/383557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}