{"id":42008,"date":"2014-01-11T02:09:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T02:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn_paul_melly-why_the_central_african_republic_is_slipping_close_to_catas\/"},"modified":"2014-01-11T02:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T02:09:48","slug":"cnn_paul_melly-why_the_central_african_republic_is_slipping_close_to_catas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42008","title":{"rendered":"(CNN) Paul Melly&#8211;Why the Central African Republic is slipping close to catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Is the Central African Republic the world&#8217;s next Rwanda? That&#8217;s the question some are beginning to ask about a crisis that has been going on for most of this year but has only just burst through into the mainstream international mass media.<\/p>\n<p>Warlords ruling the countryside by terror, a government that is almost toothless and the collapse of institutions have forced 0.4 million people to flee their homes and left a million dependent on aid.<\/p>\n<p>And now reports of Muslim and Christian communities engaged in inter-communal violence have sparked concern about a slide into religious conflict. The &#8220;G-word&#8221; &#8212; genocide &#8212; has even been floated as a real risk by some observers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2013\/12\/02\/opinion\/central-african-republic-melly\/?hpt=hp_t2\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Central African Republic the world&#8217;s next Rwanda? That&#8217;s the question some are beginning to ask about a crisis that has been going on for most of this year but has only just burst through into the mainstream international<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42008\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,202,545,168,144,161,426,659,155,151,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-central-african-republic","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}