{"id":1780,"date":"2011-04-22T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2011-04-22T18:26:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T22:26:39","slug":"five-dead-in-ugandan-food-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1780","title":{"rendered":"Five Dead in Ugandan Food Riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although food prices have decreased slightly in March from the all-time high they hit in February, there have been food riots in Uganda. According to an <a title=\"Protests in Uganda Over Rising Prices Grow Violent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/22\/world\/africa\/22uganda.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in this morning&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Demonstrations over rising food and fuel prices started two weeks ago, spearheaded by two politicians who lost to Mr. Museveni in elections in February.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Despite the meager size of the protests, government security forces have responded with overwhelming force, killing at least five people since the protests began, including a young child, and wounding and arresting hundreds more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article also mentions similar riots in Burkina Faso, which I was not aware of. I hope that this political unrest does not spread further.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although food prices have decreased slightly in March from the all-time high they hit in February, there have been food riots in Uganda. According to<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1780\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five Dead in Ugandan Food Riots<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,44],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-1780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-politics","tag-food-prices","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-sI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}