{"id":230095,"date":"2026-04-11T02:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-assault-of-paul-kamara-wanamdel-commends-sierra-leone-police-leadership-on-swift-action\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:19:10","slug":"west-africa-assault-of-paul-kamara-wanamdel-commends-sierra-leone-police-leadership-on-swift-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-assault-of-paul-kamara-wanamdel-commends-sierra-leone-police-leadership-on-swift-action\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Assault of Paul Kamara &#8211; Wanamdel Commends Sierra Leone Police Leadership On Swift Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The West Africa Network of Activists and Media Defence Lawyers (WANAMDEL) has welcomed recent steps taken by the Sierra Leone Police following the <a href=\"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/issues-in-focus\/press-statement-regional-legal-group-condemns-assault-on-member-by-sierra-leone-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assault of its member, Paul Kamara<\/a>, a legal practitioner and journalist, at Adonkia Police Station in Goderich, Freetown, on April 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Kamara had visited the station&#8217;s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to follow up on the death of his colleague, Augustine Sensie Bangura, who reportedly died from suspected food poisoning at a guest house in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604100061.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 West Africa Network of Activists and Media Defence Lawyers (WANAMDEL) has welcomed recent steps taken by the Sierra Leone Police following the assault of its member, Paul Kamara, a legal practitioner and journalist, at Adonkia Police Station in Goderich, Freetown, on April 4, 2026. Kamara had visited the station&#8217;s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[6394,258,256,11975,8811,9699,8771,6572,257,10695,662,6571,1135,254,24640,54130,4375],"class_list":["post-230095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assault","tag-commends","tag-kamara","tag-leadership","tag-leone","tag-news","tag-paul","tag-police","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swift","tag-wanamdel","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/230095","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=230095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}