{"id":404667,"date":"2018-02-26T17:36:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T17:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=404667"},"modified":"2018-02-26T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T17:37:50","slug":"botswana-urges-kabila-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=404667","title":{"rendered":"Botswana urges Kabila to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"lx-stream-post__header gs-o-media\" data-reactid=\".z2xzbrrfuo.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.0.$k5a93fb6aec866006730d4763.1\">\n<div class=\"gs-o-media__body\" data-reactid=\".z2xzbrrfuo.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.0.$k5a93fb6aec866006730d4763.1.1\">\n<p class=\"lx-stream-post__header-title gel-great-primer-bold\" data-reactid=\".z2xzbrrfuo.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.0.$k5a93fb6aec866006730d4763.1.1.0\">Botswana has urged the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, to step down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post__body gel-body-copy\" data-reactid=\".z2xzbrrfuo.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.0.$k5a93fb6aec866006730d4763.3\">\n<div class=\"lx-rta \" data-reactid=\".z2xzbrrfuo.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.0.$k5a93fb6aec866006730d4763.3.0\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post-body\" data-reactid=\".z2xzbrrfuo.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.0.$k5a93fb6aec866006730d4763.3.0.0\">\n<p>The foreign ministry said the situation is DR Congo is particularly bad &#8220;because its leader has persistently delayed holding elections, and has lost control over the security of his country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Government troops have clashed with opposition supporters following the refusal of President Mr Kabila to leave office.<\/p>\n<p>He took power in 2001 after his father&#8217;s assassination and had been expected to step down in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He has however reneged on two deals to get him to leave office.<\/p>\n<p>Another deal has set December this year as the deadline for him to hand over power but opposition supporters suspect that he will not.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana has urged the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, to step down. The foreign ministry said the situation is DR Congo is particularly bad &#8220;because its leader has persistently delayed holding elections, and has lost control over the security of his country&#8221;. Government troops have clashed with opposition supporters following the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":404669,"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":[1761,16335],"class_list":["post-404667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-congo","tag-kabila"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404667","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=404667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/404669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}