{"id":3776,"date":"2011-07-19T20:38:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T20:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2011-07-19T20:38:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T20:38:18","slug":"reuters-taking-sides-on-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/19\/reuters-taking-sides-on-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters taking sides on Malawi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3777\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3777\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3777\" title=\"350164841\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/3501648411-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gangs in question<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;\">First line of<a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idAFJOE76I0MB20110719?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FAFRICATopNews+%28News+%2F+AFRICA+%2F+Top+News%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">\u00a0a Reuters story<\/a>\u00a0on the situation ahead of mass protests in Malawi:<\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"post-body-2545497238513824136\">\n<blockquote><p>Gangs of machete-wielding pro-government youths took to the streets of Malawi&#8217;s commercial capital on Tuesday, a day ahead of planned protests against President Bingu wa Mutharika, who is accused of autocracy and mishandling the economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-2545497238513824136\">\nI&#8217;m not necessarily a fan of the current Malawian government&#8217;s policies but that seems a little alarmist, even sensationalist to me. Words have power. And Malawi has an existance (and problems) beyond the &#8220;diplomatic row&#8221; with the UK.<\/p>\n<p>And on the demonstrations could we wait a little and see if there is really anything there? Maybe? Just for a day? Is there no way a protest in an African country could conceivably happen without bloodshed and revolution, at least until it has actually happened?<\/p><\/div>\n<div>Source :\u00a0<a rel=\"no-follow\" href=\"http:\/\/hawk-emptysky.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/hawk-emptysky.blogspot.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First line of\u00a0a Reuters story\u00a0on the situation ahead of mass protests in Malawi: Gangs of machete-wielding pro-government youths took to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005],"tags":[1004,1012],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-demonstrations-2","tag-20july","tag-redarmy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}