{"id":71401,"date":"2025-02-01T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T10:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=71401"},"modified":"2025-02-01T10:19:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T10:19:05","slug":"as-m23-rebel-group-advances-in-congo-a-new-leader-signals-a-shift-in-its-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/01\/as-m23-rebel-group-advances-in-congo-a-new-leader-signals-a-shift-in-its-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"As M23 rebel group advances in Congo, a new leader signals a shift in its identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/01\/31\/e5a668e9-d4fd-44bb-81ec-6760e86867fd\/thumbnail\/1240x1240\/3aee51f2984bedbf6483591d718e7ba2\/congo-map-infographic-2195924997.jpg?v=a599723035d2f104d7a2d01edbe96ef8\" alt=\"U.N. warns escalation in Congo war with M23 rebels bringing &quot;summary ...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of the biggest city in eastern\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/congo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Congo<\/a> this week, the man who emerged from the shadows to assert his leadership was not the group&#8217;s long-time military leader. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/as-m23-rebel-group-advances-in-congo-a-new-leader-signals-a-shift-in-its-identity\/ar-AA1ydIfE?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=5fdf4ea07f794947ec687be395acc9fe&amp;ei=107\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>After Rwanda-backed M23 rebels took control of the biggest city in eastern\u00a0Congo this week, the man who emerged from the shadows to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-71401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Nangaa-M23.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71403,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71401\/revisions\/71403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}