{"id":7242,"date":"2012-02-13T08:35:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7242"},"modified":"2012-02-13T08:35:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:35:50","slug":"president-kabilas-aide-dies-in-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/president-kabilas-aide-dies-in-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kabila\u2019s aide dies in plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/afp_drc_joseph_kabila_195_08Sep007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/afp_drc_joseph_kabila_195_08Sep007.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"afp_drc_joseph_kabila_195_08Sep007\" width=\"210\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7244\" \/><\/a>A senior adviser to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, has been killed in a plane crash in the east of the country.<br \/>\nAugustin Katumba Mwanke died when the private jet came down near the town of Bukavu, a statement read out on national TV said. The pilot also died.<br \/>\nFinance Minister Matato Ponyo Mapo and a provincial governor were among other passengers who were seriously injured.<br \/>\nThe crash happened when the plane overshot the runway, officials said.<br \/>\n\u201cUnfortunately, I have to confirm the death of Katumba Mwanke and the pilot,\u201d government spokesman Lambert Mende told Reuters.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a very big loss, he was considered a pillar of the presidential majority,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The accident is the latest in a string of crashes in the DR Congo \u2013 a country which has one of the world\u2019s worst air safety records.<br \/>\nLast July, a passenger plane with 112 people on board went down at Kisangani airport, in the north, killing more than 50 people.<br \/>\nIn April, a UN plane crashed as it attempted to land in heavy rain in Kinshasa, killing 32 of 33 people on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior adviser to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, has been killed in a plane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1575,1576,1577],"class_list":["post-7242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-congo","tag-joseph","tag-kabila"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242","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=7242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7242\/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=7242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}