{"id":18398,"date":"2018-10-14T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T12:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18398"},"modified":"2018-10-14T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T12:23:47","slug":"uganda-buries-its-dead-after-landslide-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18398","title":{"rendered":"Uganda buries its dead after landslide disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"72.671454219\">\n<p>A river near Mount Elgon, burst its banks on Thursday, sending mud and boulders down a mountainside, flattening the villages in its path.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/landslide.html\">Landslides<\/a> have become more frequent in Bududa, as the growing population&#8217;s need for timber and fuel has stripped many of the trees out of the mountain&#8217;s fragile slopes.<\/p>\n<p>Today, that timber is being used to build coffins instead of homes in a community where landslides have become tragically common.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Malcolm Webb reports from the village of Wanjenwa, in Bududa, where relatives have begun burying the dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A river near Mount Elgon, burst its banks on Thursday, sending mud and boulders down a mountainside, flattening the villages in its path. Landslides have become more frequent in Bududa, as the growing population&#8217;s need for timber and fuel has stripped many of the trees out of the mountain&#8217;s fragile slopes. Today, that timber is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18398","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\/18398","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=18398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}