{"id":30134,"date":"2019-01-22T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30134"},"modified":"2019-01-22T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T13:24:09","slug":"zimbabwe-president-says-heads-will-roll-after-protest-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30134","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe president says &#8216;heads will roll&#8217; after protest crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN)<\/cite>Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called violence by the country&#8217;s security forces &#8220;unacceptable and a betrayal&#8221; following deadly protests last week sparked by a sharp fuel price hike. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Mnangagwa&#8217;s comments were his first on the strife which has wracked Zimbabwe for over a week, during which the President was largely absent. He arrived back in Harare Tuesday from Switzerland, where he had been due to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;One week ago I announced measures to stabilize our nation&#8217;s crucial fuel supply. I was aware that these measures may not be popular, and this was not a decision we took lightly. But it was the right thing to do,&#8221; Mnangagwa said on Twitter. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN)Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called violence by the country&#8217;s security forces &#8220;unacceptable and a betrayal&#8221; following deadly protests last week sparked by a sharp fuel price hike. Mnangagwa&#8217;s comments were his first on the strife which has wracked Zimbabwe for over a week, during which the President was largely absent. He arrived&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30134","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\/30134","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=30134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}