{"id":45185,"date":"2019-10-06T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T04:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45185"},"modified":"2019-10-06T13:01:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T05:01:35","slug":"arab-league-voices-concern-over-unrest-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45185","title":{"rendered":"Arab League Voices Concern Over Unrest In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>CAIRO, Oct 6 (NNN-MENA) &#8211; The Arab League (AL), voiced concern over the recent unrest in Iraq and stressed support for the country&#8217;s peace and stability, the Cairo-based pan-Arab body said in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AL remarks came, as the Iraqi capital, Baghdad and several other cities have been witnessing mass protests, against alleged lack of services and prevailing corruption and unemployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AL Secretary-General, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, called on the Iraqi government &#8220;to do whatever would settle the situation and to start immediately, an earnest and true dialogue to remove the causes of protests.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 90 people were killed and around 4,000 were wounded, in confrontations during the ongoing protests that started on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, addressed the protesters in a televised speech saying, &#8220;your voice is heard even before you protest, and it has reached us clearly.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He promised that his government is working on meeting their demands of &#8220;fighting corruption, providing job opportunities, caring for the youth and implementing a comprehensive reform,&#8221; reassuring that they are not &#8220;empty promises.&#8221;&#8211; NNN-MENA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO, Oct 6 (NNN-MENA) &#8211; The Arab League (AL), voiced concern over the recent unrest in Iraq and stressed support for the country&#8217;s peace and stability, the Cairo-based pan-Arab body said in a statement. The AL remarks came, as the Iraqi capital, Baghdad and several other cities have been witnessing mass protests, against alleged lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45185"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}