{"id":42972,"date":"2025-02-07T13:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/congo-buries-its-dead-after-rebel-assault\/07\/02\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:09:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:09:38","slug":"congo-buries-its-dead-after-rebel-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/congo-buries-its-dead-after-rebel-assault\/07\/02\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo Buries Its Dead After Rebel Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was one of the deadliest battles in decades in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the city of Goma fell to a rebel group known as M23 last week, the International Red Cross said that civilians had paid a heavy price, and that the death toll was expected to go up as more bodies were found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With the rebels said to be getting backing from another Central African county, Rwanda \u2014 the Rwandans deny this \u2014 there was fear that the conflict could grow into a broader war among the neighboring countries and their allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Millions have died in the past 30 years in Congo amid ethnic tensions and disputes over access to land and mineral resources. But rarely have so many been killed within just a few days, experts told Elian Peltier, a New York Times correspondent who traveled to Goma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/07\/world\/africa\/congo-photo-burial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was one of the deadliest battles in decades in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After the city of Goma fell to<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/congo-buries-its-dead-after-rebel-assault\/07\/02\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}