{"id":25452,"date":"2018-12-13T20:22:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25452"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:22:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:22:49","slug":"fire-destroys-8000-voting-machines-10-days-ahead-of-congos-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25452","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys 8,000 voting machines 10 days ahead of Congo&#8217;s presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)<\/cite>A fire still under investigation has destroyed 8,000 voting machines in the Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s capital &#8212; 80% of the city&#8217;s stock &#8212; just 10 days ahead of a presidential election, the nation&#8217;s electoral body and police said Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Smoke still lingered the day after flames engulfed a warehouse housing electoral materials on Wednesday in Kinshasa, the officials said. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The ruined ballot machines were among 10,000 due to be used in the December 23 vote, Congo&#8217;s electoral commission chief, Corneille Nangaa, said. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)A fire still under investigation has destroyed 8,000 voting machines in the Democratic Republic of Congo&#8217;s capital &#8212; 80% of the city&#8217;s stock &#8212; just 10 days ahead of a presidential election, the nation&#8217;s electoral body and police said Thursday.Smoke still lingered the day after flames engulfed a warehouse housing electoral materials on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452","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=25452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}