{"id":184616,"date":"2024-11-15T02:10:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/uganda-security-rescues-egyptian-diplomat-kidnapped-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T02:10:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:10:49","slug":"uganda-security-rescues-egyptian-diplomat-kidnapped-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/uganda-security-rescues-egyptian-diplomat-kidnapped-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Security Rescues Egyptian Diplomat Kidnapped in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Joint security forces have successfully rescued a diplomat at the Egyptian Embassy in Uganda who had been kidnapped by unknown individuals who later asked for a ransom of over shs146 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">According to Kampala Metropolitan deputy police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, Muhammed Ali, 40, the commercial first secretary in the office of the deputy Ambassador of Egypt to Uganda went missing on November 8 under unknown circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">&#8220;The victim was a resident of Kawalya Kaggwa close in Kololo but&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411140595.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint security forces have successfully rescued a diplomat at the Egyptian Embassy in Uganda who had been kidnapped by unknown individuals who later asked for a ransom of over shs146 million. According to Kampala Metropolitan deputy police spokesperson, Luke Owoyesigyire, Muhammed Ali, 40, the commercial first secretary in the office of the deputy Ambassador of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":184617,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,12456,415,6639,476,257,7300,4586,254,4707],"class_list":["post-184616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-diplomat","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian","tag-kidnapped","tag-news","tag-rescues","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uganda"],"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\/184616","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}