{"id":182201,"date":"2024-10-09T22:33:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mandera-police-seize-190-bags-of-smuggled-sugar-at-the-kenya-ethiopia-border\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T22:33:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:33:50","slug":"kenya-mandera-police-seize-190-bags-of-smuggled-sugar-at-the-kenya-ethiopia-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mandera-police-seize-190-bags-of-smuggled-sugar-at-the-kenya-ethiopia-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Mandera Police Seize 190 Bags of Smuggled Sugar At the Kenya-Ethiopia Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Security officers in Mandera have confiscated 190 bags of uncustomed sugar during a recent operation in the Siftu area, near the Kenya-Ethiopia border.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) revealed on Wednesday that the seizure was made following a tip-off from local residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaWmSKbFsn0gEDGcPy0x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;Upon inspection, it was confirmed that the lorry was transporting 190 bags, each weighing 25 kg, of uncustomed sugar,&#8221; the DCI stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The vehicle has been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410090519.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Security officers in Mandera have confiscated 190 bags of uncustomed sugar during a recent operation in the Siftu area, near the Kenya-Ethiopia border. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) revealed on Wednesday that the seizure was made following a tip-off from local residents. Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp &#8220;Upon inspection, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":182202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,10690,1900,4688,430,24043,1491,257,662,7568,7569,254,11531],"class_list":["post-182201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bags","tag-border","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyaethiopia","tag-mandera","tag-news","tag-police","tag-seize","tag-smuggled","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sugar"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}