{"id":245378,"date":"2026-09-24T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/south-africa-micah-reddy-has-been-released-and-is-on-his-way-home\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:30:06","slug":"south-africa-micah-reddy-has-been-released-and-is-on-his-way-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/south-africa-micah-reddy-has-been-released-and-is-on-his-way-home\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Micah Reddy Has Been Released and Is On His Way Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em> Kooki Mahmoud has also been freed by Djiboutian authorities <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">South African journalist Micah Reddy has been released from custody in Djibouti and is on his way home, according to his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">This comes after Reddy and his local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/groundup.org.za\/article\/south-african-journalist-micah-reddy-missing-in-djibouti\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">were reported<\/a> missing in Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Mahmoud has also been released, without being charged. It has been reported that they were held for allegedly not having <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/south-african-journalist-missing-djibouti-family-says-2026-09-20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">media accreditation<\/a> to work in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609220346.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kooki Mahmoud has also been freed by Djiboutian authorities South African journalist Micah Reddy has been released from custody in Djibouti and is on his way home, according to his family. This comes after Reddy and his local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, were reported missing in Djibouti. Mahmoud has also been released, without being charged. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":245379,"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":[567],"tags":[258,256,568,8849,21309,257,55496,6499,5069,254],"class_list":["post-245378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti-news","tag-home","tag-micah","tag-news","tag-reddy","tag-released","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/245378","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=245378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}