{"id":19848,"date":"2021-10-22T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/10\/22\/benins-parliament-votes-to-legalize-abortion\/"},"modified":"2021-10-22T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T22:00:35","slug":"benins-parliament-votes-to-legalize-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/10\/22\/benins-parliament-votes-to-legalize-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Benin&rsquo;s parliament votes to legalize abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Tonight we start in Benin. The country has become one of the few on the continent to legalise abortion in most circumstances. The law was passed on Wednesday night following a debate in parliament, but still needs to be ratified by the constitutional court before it takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>We also head to Sudan, where thousands took to the streets, demanding a fully civilian government.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, our correspondent in South AFrica brings you the latest on upcoming local elections.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we start in Benin. The country has become one of the few on the continent to legalise abortion in most circumstances. The law was passed on Wednesday night following a debate in parliament, but still needs to be ratified by the constitutional court before it takes effect. We also head to Sudan, where thousands &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-19848","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\/19848"}],"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=19848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}