{"id":5630,"date":"2019-01-25T18:08:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/01\/25\/yamoussoukro-ivory-coasts-abandoned-capital\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:08:42","slug":"yamoussoukro-ivory-coasts-abandoned-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/01\/25\/yamoussoukro-ivory-coasts-abandoned-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast&rsquo;s abandoned capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In 1983, Ivorian President F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny moved the country\u2019s capital city from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro, his birthplace. Huge building sites were set up to transform what was a small village into a modern city: an international airport was built, a polytechnic institute, a presidential palace and even the world&rsquo;s largest church. But most institutions were never transferred to Yamoussoukro and few people ever moved there. FRANCE 24 takes a closer look at Ivory Coast&rsquo;s abandoned capital.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1983, Ivorian President F\u00e9lix Houphou\u00ebt-Boigny moved the country\u2019s capital city from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro, his birthplace. Huge building sites were set up to transform what was a small village into a modern city: an international airport was built, a polytechnic institute, a presidential palace and even the world&rsquo;s largest church. But most institutions were &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-5630","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\/5630"}],"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=5630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}