{"id":12912,"date":"2019-03-08T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T08:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12912"},"modified":"2019-03-08T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T08:38:14","slug":"malawi-police-block-albino-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=12912","title":{"rendered":"Malawi police block albino march"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LILONGWE, March 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Police in Malawi have blocked a protest march by people with albinism who were trying to make their way to state house.<br><br>A journalist at the scene said there were scuffles as the protesters attempted to break through the police cordon.<br><br>They wanted to present a petition to President Peter Mutharika following a spike in the killing and maiming of albinos.<br><br>The president met a delegation, and promised to issue them with safety alarms. People with albinism are frequently killed in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.<br><br>Their body parts are used to make charms which are believed to bring luck, money and love. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LILONGWE, March 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Police in Malawi have blocked a protest march by people with albinism who were trying to make their way to state house. A journalist at the scene said there were scuffles as the protesters attempted to break through the police cordon. They wanted to present a petition to President Peter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}