{"id":95921,"date":"2020-10-09T11:02:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T03:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95921"},"modified":"2020-10-09T11:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T03:02:26","slug":"un-warns-of-hate-speech-ahead-of-guinea-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=95921","title":{"rendered":"UN warns of hate speech ahead of Guinea vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/UN-warns-of-hate-speech-ahead-of-Guinea-vote-1080202?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/915\/91567960.295.jpg\" alt=\"President Alpha Cond\u00e9 is seeking a controversial third term\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>President Alpha Cond\u00e9 is seeking a controversial third term<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CONAKRY, Oct 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The UN has warned that continued invoking of ethnic affiliations and hate speech in Guinea&#8217;s election campaigns could lead to violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN rights boss Michelle Bachelet and acting Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Pramila Patten have urged candidates to refrain from hate speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There have been increasingly pervasive and divisive appeals to ethnic affiliations during the campaign, particularly references to the Malink\u00e9 and Peuhl ethnicities,&#8221; a joint statement read in part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Alpha Cond\u00e9, who is seeking a controversial third term, is largely backed by Malink\u00e9 people, while his main opponent, Cellou Dalein Diallo, is largely backed by Fulani people, although both insist that they are pluralist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guinea is set to hold presidential elections on Oct 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, at least 50 people have been killed during demonstrations against President Cond\u00e9&#8217;s third term bid, according to Amnesty International. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Alpha Cond\u00e9 is seeking a controversial third term CONAKRY, Oct 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The UN has warned that continued invoking of ethnic affiliations and hate speech in Guinea&#8217;s election campaigns could lead to violence. The UN rights boss Michelle Bachelet and acting Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Pramila Patten have urged candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":95924,"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\/95921"}],"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=95921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}