{"id":679351,"date":"2019-08-12T17:57:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Cape Town \u2014 Ivorian singer and star of the coup\u00e9-d\u00e9cal\u00e9 DJ Arafat is dead.\u00a0 He died August 12, as a result of a traffic accident that occurred on Sunday evening, Ivorian Radio-Television (RTI"},"modified":"2019-08-12T17:57:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:57:56","slug":"cote-divoire-dj-arafat-dies-in-high-speed-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/12\/cote-divoire-dj-arafat-dies-in-high-speed-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: DJ Arafat Dies in High-Speed Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Cape Town \u2014 Ivorian singer and star of the coup\u00e9-d\u00e9cal\u00e9 DJ Arafat is dead.\u00a0 He died August 12, as a result of a traffic accident that occurred on Sunday evening, Ivorian Radio-Television (RTI) announced on its Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">Around 11 pm on August 11, DJ Arafat and a group of friends took their motor bikes for a ride in Abidjan. He crashed into a\u00a0 a vehicle driven by a journalist from Radio C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire at high speed. Social media images show his bike and the car were completely damaged in the accident. Other videos showed DJ Arafat lying on the road, unconscious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">He was rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Rumours began circulating that alcohol and drugs were involved, but his communications officer Yves Jay Jay refuted these.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">He later posted on his Facebook page reassuring fans that DJ Arafat was still in intensive care, but in a stable state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">According to the Ivorian Life magazine, the journalist from Radio C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire is still hospitalized. She is out of danger, but remains under observation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>This story was translated from the RFI story in French by Michael Tantoh.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town \u2014 Ivorian singer and star of the coup\u00e9-d\u00e9cal\u00e9 DJ Arafat is dead.\u00a0 He died August 12, as a result of a traffic accident that occurred on Sunday evening, Ivorian Radio-Television (RTI) announced on its Twitter account. 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