{"id":20186,"date":"2019-04-13T15:34:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T07:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=20186"},"modified":"2019-04-13T15:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T07:34:26","slug":"congolese-troops-kill-36-burundi-rebels-in-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=20186","title":{"rendered":"Congolese troops kill 36 Burundi rebels in east"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/726967\/400x225_726967.jpg?1555083000\" alt=\"Congolese troops kill 36 Burundi rebels in east\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KINSHASA, April 13 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; Congolese troops killed 36 Burundian rebels in clashes with two armed groups in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo and three soldiers were also killed, the army said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congolese army mounted a series of operations between April 6 and April 8 in the province of South Kivu aimed at regaining territory against the Burundian rebel groups National Liberation Forces (FNL) and the Burundian Republican Forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring the three days of combat, 36 of these rebels have been neutralized,\u201d army spokesman Dieudonne Kasereka said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FNL&nbsp;leader general Aloyse Zabampema was seriously wounded, he said. Several areas formerly under the control of rebels have been recovered by Congolese soldiers, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesman for the Burundian army said authorities could not confirm anything regarding fighting taking place in Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;FNL&nbsp;is among several ethnic Hutu rebel groups that rose up to fight Burundi\u2019s Tutsi-led military government in the 1993-2005 civil war. Though it officially disarmed in 2009, pockets of&nbsp;FNL&nbsp;fighters remain active in eastern Congo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Millions were killed in the civil war in Congo between 1998-2003, when foreign armies and allied rebel groups clashed over territory and mineral concessions, mostly in the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congo\u2019s President Felix Tshisekedi, who took office in January, has pledged to address the militia violence that persists in the region. &#8212; NNN-AFRICANEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINSHASA, April 13 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; Congolese troops killed 36 Burundian rebels in clashes with two armed groups in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo and three soldiers were also killed, the army said on Friday. The Congolese army mounted a series of operations between April 6 and April 8 in the province of South [&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\/20186"}],"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=20186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}