{"id":41682,"date":"2026-01-29T15:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/01\/29\/lagos-protesters-denounce-the-destruction-of-floating-makoko-slum\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:02:45","slug":"lagos-protesters-denounce-the-destruction-of-floating-makoko-slum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/01\/29\/lagos-protesters-denounce-the-destruction-of-floating-makoko-slum\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos protesters denounce the destruction of floating Makoko slum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nigerian police \u200dfired tear gas to \u200bdisperse residents protesting in Lagos on January 28 over demolition work in \u2060one of Africa&rsquo;s largest floating slums, the Makoko slum, that has displaced thousands of people. Lagos state officials, with the help of \u200barmed police and excavators, have been demolishing homes arguing that residents illegally built \u200btheir houses &#8211; mostly wooden shacks built on stilts above \u200bthe water &#8211; near high-voltage power lines.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian police \u200dfired tear gas to \u200bdisperse residents protesting in Lagos on January 28 over demolition work in \u2060one of Africa&rsquo;s largest floating slums, the Makoko slum, that has displaced thousands of people. Lagos state officials, with the help of \u200barmed police and excavators, have been demolishing homes arguing that residents illegally built \u200btheir houses &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-41682","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\/41682"}],"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=41682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}