{"id":27228,"date":"2018-12-28T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27228"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:22:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:22:27","slug":"drc-elections-unrest-in-opposition-strongholds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27228","title":{"rendered":"DRC elections unrest in opposition strongholds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"66\">\n<p>Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have fired tear gas on opposition protesters just days before presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s anger after voting in some pro-opposition areas was postponed. People in Beni in eastern DRC take to the streets to protest against a decision by the electoral commission to postpone their election until March next year.<\/p>\n<p>The country is due to go to the polls on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Catherine Soi has more from the capital Kinshasa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have fired tear gas on opposition protesters just days before presidential and parliamentary elections. There&#8217;s anger after voting in some pro-opposition areas was postponed. People in Beni in eastern DRC take to the streets to protest against a decision by the electoral commission to postpone their election until&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27228","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\/27228","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=27228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}