{"id":229955,"date":"2026-06-02T00:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=229955"},"modified":"2026-06-02T00:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:55:12","slug":"violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=229955","title":{"rendered":"Violence against journalists surges in eastern DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing mounting threats as conflict intensifies in the east, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The group warns the country has become one of the most dangerous places for media workers in Africa\u2019s Great Lakes region&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2026\/03\/26\/violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalists in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are facing mounting threats as conflict intensifies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229955-violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo.jpg",640,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229955-violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229955-violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229955-violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229955-violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229955-violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo.jpg",640,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229955-violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229955-violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229955-violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/229955-violence-against-journalists-surges-in-eastern-dr-congo-590x360.jpg",590,360,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}