{"id":12658,"date":"2020-06-25T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T22:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/06\/25\/police-brutality-in-africa-concern-grows-over-violent-security-forces\/"},"modified":"2020-06-25T00:02:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T22:02:30","slug":"police-brutality-in-africa-concern-grows-over-violent-security-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/06\/25\/police-brutality-in-africa-concern-grows-over-violent-security-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Police brutality in Africa: concern grows over violent security forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In tonight&rsquo;s edition we hear from the\u00a0Director of International Alert&rsquo;s Africa Programme, Cindy Chungong about the heavyhanded response used by security forces on the continent. In Kenya a policeman enforcing the country&rsquo;s coronavirus curfew was recently charged with murdering a thirteen year old boy.\u00a0And South Africa is bracing for its deepest economic slump in almost a century. The economy is expected to contract by over 7%. And finally\u00a0Gabon joins latest countries to allow same-sex relations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tonight&rsquo;s edition we hear from the\u00a0Director of International Alert&rsquo;s Africa Programme, Cindy Chungong about the heavyhanded response used by security forces on the continent. In Kenya a policeman enforcing the country&rsquo;s coronavirus curfew was recently charged with murdering a thirteen year old boy.\u00a0And South Africa is bracing for its deepest economic slump in almost &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-12658","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\/12658"}],"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=12658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}