{"id":41616,"date":"2026-01-23T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/01\/23\/uvira-economy-at-a-standstill-amid-conflict-between-drc-forces-and-m23-rebels\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T14:00:21","slug":"uvira-economy-at-a-standstill-amid-conflict-between-drc-forces-and-m23-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/01\/23\/uvira-economy-at-a-standstill-amid-conflict-between-drc-forces-and-m23-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"Uvira economy at a standstill amid conflict between DRC forces and M23 rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Uvira, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, conflict has severely impacted the local economy. In mid-December, the border with neighbouring Burundi closed after M23 rebels captured the city. Small businesses are at a standstill, and prices have exploded. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Emmett Livingstone and Cedric Bengera report straight from one of Uvira&rsquo;s still operating markets<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Uvira, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, conflict has severely impacted the local economy. In mid-December, the border with neighbouring Burundi closed after M23 rebels captured the city. Small businesses are at a standstill, and prices have exploded. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Emmett Livingstone and Cedric Bengera report straight from one of Uvira&rsquo;s still operating markets<\/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-41616","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\/41616"}],"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=41616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}