{"id":1837,"date":"2011-04-12T09:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2011-04-12T09:39:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:39:56","slug":"ivory-coast-strongman-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/ivory-coast-strongman-captured\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast Strongman Captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ivory-coast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1838\" title=\"ivory coast\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ivory-coast-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ivory-coast-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ivory-coast-342x220.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ivory-coast.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was captured in a joint raid  by French military forces and troops loyal to President-elect Alassane  Ouattara and arrested, ending a week-long siege.<\/p>\n<p>Gbagbo sparked a civil war after refusing to cede the presidency after  Ouattara won a run-off election last November. Amid heavy fighting that  has carried on for several weeks since that time, Gbagbo barricaded  himself inside his presidential palace.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest of the former authoritarian president is a step forward for  Ouattara assuming his elected position as president. It still may not  put an end to what has become a full-scale civil war. Forces loyal to  Gbagbo still remain strong and there is some indication the former  president had lost control over them prior to his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy fighting has created a dire humanitarian situation inside the  Ivory Coast. Water and food shortages are common and has led to  widespread looting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was captured in a joint raid by French military forces and troops loyal to President-elect Alassane Ouattara and arrested, ending a week-long siege. Gbagbo sparked a civil war after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1002,1003],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-gbagbo","tag-ivory-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}