{"id":184859,"date":"2024-11-18T22:56:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/uganda-mp-nkunyingi-asks-govt-to-apologise-over-kidnap-of-egyptian-diplomat\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T22:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T20:56:11","slug":"uganda-mp-nkunyingi-asks-govt-to-apologise-over-kidnap-of-egyptian-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/uganda-mp-nkunyingi-asks-govt-to-apologise-over-kidnap-of-egyptian-diplomat\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: MP Nkunyingi Asks Govt to Apologise Over Kidnap of Egyptian Diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nkunyingi Muwada, has called on the government to address security gaps after the kidnap of an Egyptian diplomat in Kampala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Muhammad Ali Abdul Amidu, a First Secretary at the Egyptian Embassy, was abducted on November 8, 2024, and rescued five days later, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;This development is concerning and exposes safety and security gaps not only for diplomats but for all persons living in Uganda, including citizens,&#8221; Muwada stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Shadow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411180630.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nkunyingi Muwada, has called on the government to address security gaps after the kidnap of an Egyptian diplomat in Kampala. Muhammad Ali Abdul Amidu, a First Secretary at the Egyptian Embassy, was abducted on November 8, 2024, and rescued five days later, according to police. &#8220;This development is concerning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184860,"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":[249],"tags":[258,256,20055,7065,12456,6639,4357,10277,257,393,50004,254,4707],"class_list":["post-184859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apologise","tag-asks","tag-diplomat","tag-egyptian","tag-govt","tag-kidnap","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nkunyingi","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\/184859","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}