{"id":16772,"date":"2018-09-29T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T16:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16772"},"modified":"2018-09-29T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T16:28:43","slug":"congo-presidential-election-concerns-over-credibility-of-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16772","title":{"rendered":"Congo presidential election concerns over credibility of vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"70\">\n<p>Opposition leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo are concerned about the credibility of the upcoming presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re worried electronic voting machines, which are being used for the first time in the country, will be manipulated to rig the result.<\/p>\n<p>The technology was created by a South Korean company which built similar machines for elections in Argentina last year. But the devices were then rejected because of security issues that made them vulnerable to hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Catherine Soi reports from the capital, Kinshasa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo are concerned about the credibility of the upcoming presidential election. They&#8217;re worried electronic voting machines, which are being used for the first time in the country, will be manipulated to rig the result. The technology was created by a South Korean company which built similar machines for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}