{"id":20055,"date":"2021-11-02T18:01:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/11\/02\/dr-congo-crime-soars-in-city-of-beni-despite-government-imposed-state-of-siege\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T17:01:51","slug":"dr-congo-crime-soars-in-city-of-beni-despite-government-imposed-state-of-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2021\/11\/02\/dr-congo-crime-soars-in-city-of-beni-despite-government-imposed-state-of-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo: Crime soars in city of Beni despite government-imposed \u2018state of siege\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Six months ago, DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi placed North Kivu and Ituri \u2013 two provinces in the east of the country\u00a0\u2013\u00a0under \u00ab\u00a0a state of siege\u00a0\u00bb, effectively imposing martial law in a region that has been rocked by conflict for decades. Today, although the\u00a0government claims that hundreds of armed militiamen have surrendered, massacres continue\u00a0and security forces\u00a0face mounting criticism. In the city of Beni, the justice system has ground to a halt and crime has soared. Our correspondents report.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months ago, DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi placed North Kivu and Ituri \u2013 two provinces in the east of the country\u00a0\u2013\u00a0under \u00ab\u00a0a state of siege\u00a0\u00bb, effectively imposing martial law in a region that has been rocked by conflict for decades. Today, although the\u00a0government claims that hundreds of armed militiamen have surrendered, massacres continue\u00a0and security &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-20055","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\/20055"}],"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=20055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}