{"id":1949,"date":"2024-01-20T01:35:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usbnews24.com\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2024-01-22T01:36:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T19:36:55","slug":"dr-congos-president-tshisekedi-sworn-in-for-second-term-amid-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=1949","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo\u2019s President Tshisekedi sworn in for second term amid disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s President Felix Tshisekedi has been sworn in for a second five-year term following highly\u00a0contested elections in December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am taking back the baton of command that you entrusted to me. We want a more united, stronger and prosperous Congo,\u201d Tshisekedi, 60, said during the inauguration ceremony in the capital on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI am aware of your expectations,\u201d he declared, referring among other things to unemployment, youth, women\u2019s rights and national cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>With tensions simmering in the vast nation\u2019s volatile eastern provinces, the leader known as \u201cFatshi\u201d picked Kinshasa\u2019s 80,000-capacity Martyrs sports stadium for the inauguration ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s President Felix Tshisekedi has been sworn in for a second five-year term following highly\u00a0contested elections in December. \u201cI am taking back the baton of command that you entrusted to me. We want a more united, stronger and prosperous Congo,\u201d Tshisekedi, 60, said during the inauguration ceremony in the capital on Saturday. \u201cI am aware of your expectations,\u201d he declared, referring among other things to unemployment, youth, women\u2019s rights and national cohesion. With tensions simmering in the vast nation\u2019s volatile eastern provinces, the leader known<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}