{"id":42165,"date":"2026-03-06T15:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/03\/06\/mine-collapses-in-eastern-congo-with-official-death-toll-disputed-by-m23-rebels\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:02:06","slug":"mine-collapses-in-eastern-congo-with-official-death-toll-disputed-by-m23-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/03\/06\/mine-collapses-in-eastern-congo-with-official-death-toll-disputed-by-m23-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"Mine collapses in eastern Congo, with official death toll disputed by M23 rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A mine collapse at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo left at least 200 dead, according to Congolese authorities, a number disputed by the rebel group that controls the mine. The collapse follows a similar event in January that also left over 200 dead in an area already facing a humanitarian crisis and ongoing conflict. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Emmet Livingstone has more from Kinshasa about a strategic mine, which produces 15% of the world&rsquo;s tantalum.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mine collapse at a major coltan mining site in eastern Congo left at least 200 dead, according to Congolese authorities, a number disputed by the rebel group that controls the mine. The collapse follows a similar event in January that also left over 200 dead in an area already facing a humanitarian crisis and &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-42165","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\/42165"}],"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=42165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}