{"id":27459,"date":"2018-12-30T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27459"},"modified":"2018-12-30T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T21:22:08","slug":"congo-voters-cast-ballots-in-election-delayed-for-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27459","title":{"rendered":"Congo voters cast ballots in election delayed for 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Goma, Congo (CNN)<\/cite>Citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo headed to the polls Sunday for a long-delayed presidential election originally scheduled to be held in 2016.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Voters lined up to pick a successor to President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled the central African country since 2001. Sunday&#8217;s vote would have marked the country&#8217;s first-ever democratic transfer of power, but an electoral commission&#8217;s decision to delay voting in three opposition strongholds has all but guaranteed contested results.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Kabila has ruled Congo for nearly two decades. He came to power at 29 and amid crisis after the assassination of his father in 2001.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goma, Congo (CNN)Citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo headed to the polls Sunday for a long-delayed presidential election originally scheduled to be held in 2016.Voters lined up to pick a successor to President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled the central African country since 2001. Sunday&#8217;s vote would have marked the country&#8217;s first-ever democratic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27459","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\/27459","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=27459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}