{"id":30797,"date":"2023-12-20T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T11:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/12\/20\/cash-strapped-congolese-eye-deep-inequalities-ahead-of-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T12:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T11:02:04","slug":"cash-strapped-congolese-eye-deep-inequalities-ahead-of-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/12\/20\/cash-strapped-congolese-eye-deep-inequalities-ahead-of-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash-strapped Congolese eye deep inequalities ahead of presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Five years after graduating with a diploma in computer network maintenance, Georges Bamue, 27, still navigates the streets of Democratic Republic of Congo&rsquo;s capital as a motorcycle taxi rider, unable to find a job or raise enough to start a business in his trained field. Bamue, like millions of Congolese who will head to the polls on Dec. 20, has seen little improvement in living conditions despite Congo&rsquo;s vast critical minerals wealth, and promises made by President Felix Tshisekedi when he came to power in 2019. While economic growth in world&rsquo;s top supplier of battery-grade cobalt and the third largest copper producer, boosted by its mining sector reached over 8.5% in 2022, 62% of nearly 100 million Congolese living on less than two dollars a day.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years after graduating with a diploma in computer network maintenance, Georges Bamue, 27, still navigates the streets of Democratic Republic of Congo&rsquo;s capital as a motorcycle taxi rider, unable to find a job or raise enough to start a business in his trained field. Bamue, like millions of Congolese who will head to the &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-30797","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\/30797"}],"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=30797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}