{"id":10348,"date":"2018-12-13T13:09:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/dr-congo-poll-blaze-hits-electoral-depot-as-tense-vote-nears\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T17:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T17:23:05","slug":"dr-congo-election-fire-destroys-8000-electronic-voting-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/dr-congo-election-fire-destroys-8000-electronic-voting-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo Election: Fire destroys 8000 Electronic Voting Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaptly named Democratic Republic\u00a0Congo which has not had a peaceful, democratic transfer of power since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960 has had a setback with the loss of nearly 8000 of the electronic voting machines needed for the capital\u00a0Kinshasa.<\/p>\n<p>The voting to elect a successor to President Joseph Kabila should have happened 2 years ago but elections have been repeatedly delayed and dozens of opposition supporters have been killed in protests.<\/p>\n<p>The exiting president is backing his former Interior Minister, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary, in the election and the main opposition leader is Felix Tshisekedi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inaptly named Democratic Republic\u00a0Congo which has not had a peaceful, democratic transfer of power since gaining independence from Belgium in 1960 has had a setback with the loss of nearly 8000 of the electronic voting machines needed for the capital\u00a0Kinshasa. The voting to elect a successor to President Joseph Kabila should have happened 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-10348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-dr-congo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10373,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10348\/revisions\/10373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}