{"id":26630,"date":"2025-04-09T01:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/dozens-dead-after-kinshasa-deluge\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T01:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T01:05:17","slug":"dozens-dead-after-kinshasa-deluge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/dozens-dead-after-kinshasa-deluge\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens dead after Kinshasa deluge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Torrential rains and floods have killed at least 33 people in Kinshasa &#8211; the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo &#8211; according to officials.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">&#8220;The republic will not abandon you,&#8221; President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi promised victims on Monday, saying he had called a government crisis meeting.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Desperate residents have been trying to flee the floodwaters by wading, swimming or paddling to safety in homemade canoes.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The city is home to 17 million people, and sits on the Congo river, which is one of the biggest in the world and stretches across the country.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cwyngjw87pjo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torrential rains and floods have killed at least 33 people in Kinshasa &#8211; the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo &#8211; according to officials. &#8220;The republic will not abandon you,&#8221; President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi promised victims on Monday, saying he had called a government crisis meeting. Desperate residents have been trying to flee the floodwaters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26632,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26630\/revisions\/26632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}