{"id":189217,"date":"2025-01-22T01:40:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T23:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-guarantee-the-safety-of-journalist-thomas-dixon-mfwa-urges-sierra-leone-igp\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T01:40:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T23:40:39","slug":"west-africa-guarantee-the-safety-of-journalist-thomas-dixon-mfwa-urges-sierra-leone-igp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-guarantee-the-safety-of-journalist-thomas-dixon-mfwa-urges-sierra-leone-igp\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Guarantee the Safety of Journalist Thomas Dixon, MFWA Urges Sierra Leone IGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) joins the media fraternity in Sierra Leone to condemns the threats and intimidation against journalist Thomas Josephus Dixon, and urge the authorities to ensure his safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;Thomas, you have crossed the red line,&#8221; read a cryptic text message from the Inspector General of Police, William Fayia Sellu, to Thomas Dixon, editor-in-chief of the Salone Times Newspaper and the publisher of the New Age Newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">The threatening message sent on December 28, 2024,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501210420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) joins the media fraternity in Sierra Leone to condemns the threats and intimidation against journalist Thomas Josephus Dixon, and urge the authorities to ensure his safety. &#8220;Thomas, you have crossed the red line,&#8221; read a cryptic text message from the Inspector General of Police, William Fayia Sellu, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189218,"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":[1109],"tags":[258,256,30568,8742,7412,7277,6572,11415,257,4672,6571,1135,254,6769,6810,4375],"class_list":["post-189217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dixon","tag-guarantee","tag-igp","tag-journalist","tag-leone","tag-mfwa","tag-news","tag-safety","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thomas","tag-urges","tag-west"],"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\/189217","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=189217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}