{"id":12000,"date":"2020-05-09T18:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/05\/09\/overcrowding-in-dr-congo-prisons-poses-covid-19-threat\/"},"modified":"2020-05-09T18:07:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T16:07:35","slug":"overcrowding-in-dr-congo-prisons-poses-covid-19-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/05\/09\/overcrowding-in-dr-congo-prisons-poses-covid-19-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcrowding in DR Congo prisons poses Covid-19 threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In a mid-April report, the NGO Human Rights Watch cited UN statistics that the main prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo\u00a0are at 432 percent capacity, with Makala Prison in the country\u2019s capital of Kinshasa at 461 percent. While media access to prisons in Kinshasa is denied, FRANCE 24 obtained amateur footage from Makala inmates\u00a0and spoke with an NGO and a Congolese official about the potential for a major Covid-19 health crisis.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a mid-April report, the NGO Human Rights Watch cited UN statistics that the main prisons in the Democratic Republic of Congo\u00a0are at 432 percent capacity, with Makala Prison in the country\u2019s capital of Kinshasa at 461 percent. While media access to prisons in Kinshasa is denied, FRANCE 24 obtained amateur footage from Makala inmates\u00a0and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-12000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}