{"id":1599,"date":"2018-04-17T05:46:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T05:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2018-04-17T05:46:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T05:46:06","slug":"thousands-of-dr-congo-refugees-escaping-violence-to-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2018\/04\/17\/thousands-of-dr-congo-refugees-escaping-violence-to-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of DR Congo refugees escaping violence to Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-more-on-block article-shaded-blocks article-embedded-card hidden-xs\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" class=\"article-p-wrapper\">\n<p>The\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo\u00a0is not attending its own donor conference in Geneva on Friday, saying the\u00a0United Nations had exaggerated the number of people who need aid.<\/p>\n<p>Escalating violence has displaced more than four million people within Congo, according to the UN.<\/p>\n<p>Since December alone, 70,000 have fled fighting in the east to camps in neighboring Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Malcolm Webb has retraced the refugees&#8217; journey.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s traveled from Uganda&#8217;s capital Kampala to the Kyangwali camp, where most of the refugees are resettled.<\/p>\n<p>He then headed to Kasenyi Landing Site, on the shore of Lake Albert in Congo.<\/p>\n<p>This is where many refugees take boats to escape to Uganda. And finally, he visits Bunia and a camp for people who have fled the fighting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo\u00a0is not attending its own donor conference in Geneva on Friday, saying the\u00a0United Nations had exaggerated the number of people who need aid. Escalating violence has displaced more than four million people within Congo, according to the UN. Since December alone, 70,000 have fled fighting in the east to camps in neighboring Uganda. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Malcolm Webb&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2018\/04\/17\/thousands-of-dr-congo-refugees-escaping-violence-to-uganda\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}