{"id":39681,"date":"2019-06-10T09:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T09:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39681"},"modified":"2019-06-10T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T09:22:22","slug":"mass-strike-shuts-down-city-of-2m-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39681","title":{"rendered":"Mass strike shuts down city of 2M people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The streets of the Sudanese capital were mostly deserted Sunday, the first day of the country&#8217;s Islamic working week, amid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/06\/09\/africa\/sudan-civil-disobedience-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">a mass general strike<\/a> called by opposition groups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The move to shutdown Khartoum &#8212; a city of some two million people &#8212; came as four more people were reported to have been killed, bringing the total the total death toll to 118 people following last Monday&#8217;s bloody military crackdown, according to the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a statement, Sunday, the committee said one of the victims was a 20 year old man, killed with a direct gunshot to the chest by the Rapid Support Forces, known as the Janjaweed, a paramilitary group that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/31\/africa\/sudan-protests-analysis-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"> supports the government.<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The streets of the Sudanese capital were mostly deserted Sunday, the first day of the country&#8217;s Islamic working week, amid a mass general strike called by opposition groups.The move to shutdown Khartoum &#8212; a city of some two million people &#8212; came as four more people were reported to have been killed, bringing the total&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39681","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\/39681","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=39681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}