{"id":12157,"date":"2019-03-05T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12157"},"modified":"2019-03-05T11:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:46:48","slug":"march-4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12157","title":{"rendered":"March 4, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ethopia-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11882\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ethopia-1.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ethopia-1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ethopia-1-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ethopia-1-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Tokyo, Japan, March 4 &#8211; Birhanu Legese crosses the finish line to win the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday. Ethiopian Birhanu Legese cruised to victory at the Tokyo marathon on Sunday, winning in a time of two hours, four minutes and 48 seconds in to claim his first major title. The 24-year-old was part of a small leading group for the first 30 kilometres before pulling away easily from runnerup Kenyan Bedan Karoki (2:06:48) and strolling to victory. Karoki\u2019s compatriot Dickson Chumba, twice a winner in Tokyo, was third. Photo courtesy kyodo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/764262_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11820\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/764262_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg 650w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/764262_img650x420_img650x420_crop-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/764262_img650x420_img650x420_crop-600x388.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption>Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, March 4 &#8211; Stephane Bak and Marc Zinga in a scene from &#8220;The Mercy of the Jungle.&#8221;.Rwandan director Joel Karekezi\u2019s \u201cThe Mercy of the Jungle\u201d scooped best film at Africa\u2019s top film festival, Saturday, following a fierce debate about gender equality and sexual aggression in the continent\u2019s movie industry. The film was among 20 vying for the top Golden Stallion of Yennenga award at the Pan-African film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Fespaco).  Photo courtesy of Fespaco<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}