{"id":28594,"date":"2019-01-10T19:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28594"},"modified":"2019-01-10T19:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T19:22:46","slug":"an-electoral-coup-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28594","title":{"rendered":"An &#8216;electoral coup&#8217; in the Democratic Republic of Congo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"75.9642384106\">\n<p>A two-year wait for a new leader is coming to an end in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/democratic-republic-congo.html\">Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/a>, but already a post-election crisis is brewing.<\/p>\n<p>Felix Tshisekedi, the leader of the largest opposition party, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/01\/felix-tshisekedi-wins-dr-congo-presidential-vote-electoral-board-190110020354170.html\">declared the winner<\/a> of the long-delayed presidential election to replace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/joseph-kabila.html\">Joseph Kabila<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But a second opposition rival, Martin Fayulu, is denouncing the result as an &#8216;electoral hold-up&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Will there be a peaceful transition of power?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Folly Bah Thibault<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Benedicte Ndjoko &#8211; Congolese historian, coordinator of the Likambo Ya Mabele civil liberties movement<\/p>\n<p>Al Kitenge &#8211; Chief executive, Innovation Task Force, political consultant and economic analyst<\/p>\n<p>Indigo Ellis &#8211; Risk consultant, Verisk Maplecroft<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-year wait for a new leader is coming to an end in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but already a post-election crisis is brewing. Felix Tshisekedi, the leader of the largest opposition party, has been declared the winner of the long-delayed presidential election to replace Joseph Kabila. But a second opposition rival, Martin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28594","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\/28594","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=28594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}