{"id":28208,"date":"2019-01-07T22:22:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28208"},"modified":"2019-01-07T22:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T22:22:43","slug":"gabon-government-says-situation-under-control-after-apparent-coup-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28208","title":{"rendered":"Gabon government says &#8216;situation under control&#8217; after apparent coup attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The government in Gabon says the &#8220;situation is under control&#8221; and that rebels there have been arrested after military officers seized state media and announced they had leadership of the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The officers declared their dissatisfaction with President Ali Bongo and said they had seized power to &#8220;restore democracy&#8221; in the Central African nation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">However, government spokesman Guy-Bertrand Mapangou told French news outlet RFI that defense forces have now taken back control of state TV and radio.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The government in Gabon says the &#8220;situation is under control&#8221; and that rebels there have been arrested after military officers seized state media and announced they had leadership of the country.The officers declared their dissatisfaction with President Ali Bongo and said they had seized power to &#8220;restore democracy&#8221; in the Central African nation.However, government spokesman&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28208","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\/28208","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=28208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}