{"id":34512,"date":"2023-01-12T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T07:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=34512"},"modified":"2023-01-12T10:28:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T07:28:56","slug":"dr-congo-accuses-rwanda-of-blackmail-over-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/dr-congo-accuses-rwanda-of-blackmail-over-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo Accuses Rwanda Of Blackmail Over Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Democratic Republic of Congo has condemned Rwanda for saying it will no longer take in people fleeing conflict in the eastern part of DR Congo..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesman for the Congolese government said the remarks by Rwanda&#8217;s President Paul Kagame proved that human rights were of no value to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He accused Kigali of blackmailing the international community by using refugees for political purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patrick Muyaya said even though President Kagame had attempted to walk back on his remarks on the subject, he had &#8220;revealed his true intentions&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 70,000 Congolese have crossed to Rwanda, fleeing a conflict between the government and the M23 rebels, which the international community says is supported by Rwanda. Kigali denies the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eastern Congo is scarred by dozens of conflicts, mostly over mineral resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Republic of Congo has condemned Rwanda for saying it will no longer take in people fleeing conflict in the eastern part of DR Congo.. A spokesman for the Congolese government said the remarks by Rwanda&#8217;s President Paul Kagame proved that human rights were of no value to him. He accused Kigali of blackmailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":34515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[8214,31,119],"class_list":["post-34512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-eastern-dr-congo","tag-featured","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34516,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34512\/revisions\/34516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}