{"id":26386,"date":"2009-04-21T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/04\/21\/progress-in-burundi\/"},"modified":"2009-04-21T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T21:09:00","slug":"progress-in-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/progress-in-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>African Union troops are physically disarming 21,000 fighters from Burundi&#8217;s last active rebel group, the Forces for National Liberation (FNL).<\/p>\n<p>It follows a weekend ceremony where FNL leader Agathon Rwasa symbolically surrendered his own weapons to the AU.<\/p>\n<p>A grenade attack killed six people but the BBC&#8217;s Prime Ndikumagenge says it was not linked to the rebels.<\/p>\n<p>But he says it shows how many weapons are circulating in Burundi following more than 10 years of ethnic conflict. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8009756.stm\">bbc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Union troops are physically disarming 21,000 fighters from Burundi&#8217;s last active rebel group, the Forces for National Liberation (FNL). It follows a weekend ceremony where FNL leader Agathon Rwasa symbolically surrendered his own weapons to the AU. A grenade attack killed six people but the BBC&#8217;s Prime Ndikumagenge says it was not linked to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/progress-in-burundi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Progress in Burundi<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6RA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}