{"id":60263,"date":"2020-01-30T09:30:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T01:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60263"},"modified":"2020-01-30T09:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T01:30:31","slug":"attack-kills-15-in-eastern-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60263","title":{"rendered":"Attack kills 15 in eastern DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3671b2408df4cffbff27a50936481ce1dfae2b4a.jpeg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3671b2408df4cffbff27a50936481ce1dfae2b4a-696x392.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OICHA(DR Congo), Jan 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Fifteen people have been killed in the eastern DR Congo region of Beni, where hundreds have died in militia violence since November, a local official said, giving a<br>provisional toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past 24 hours, \u201c14 bodies have been found hacked to death,\u201d while a<br>pastor was killed in a separate attack, the administrator for the Beni<br>region, Donat Kibwana, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two people with severe head wounds have been admitted to the hospital in<br>Oicha for surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a toll compiled by civil society groups, 265 people have been<br>killed in the Beni region since the army began a crackdown on an armed group, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), on Oct 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The massacres seem to be a tactic by the ADF to frighten the population<br>into silence, say local commentators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ADF began as an Islamist rebel group in Uganda that opposed Ugandan<br>President Yoweri Museveni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It fell back into eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 1995 during the<br>Congo Wars and appears to have halted raids inside Uganda. Its recruits today are people of various nationalities. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OICHA(DR Congo), Jan 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Fifteen people have been killed in the eastern DR Congo region of Beni, where hundreds have died in militia violence since November, a local official said, giving aprovisional toll. In the past 24 hours, \u201c14 bodies have been found hacked to death,\u201d while apastor was killed in a separate [&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\/60263"}],"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=60263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}