{"id":4195,"date":"2014-07-17T17:09:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2014-07-17T17:09:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:09:41","slug":"aljazeera-journalists-robbed-in-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/aljazeera-journalists-robbed-in-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Aljazeera journalists robbed in Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana &#8211; Two British journalists working for Aljazeera TV English channel were robbed of their cameras, laptops and other expensive equipment during a burglary at a Gaborone guesthouse, the Midweek Sun newspaper reported here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The paper said the journalists, Sorious Samura and Clive Paterson, are in Botswana making a documentary on Botswana following Samura\u2019s epic Blood Diamonds film that helped Botswana to argue her case for development.<\/p>\n<p>The duo\u2019s week-long holiday was fine until Sunday night when robbers hit them in what was supposed to be a well secured facility&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botswana News\" href=\"http:\/\/en.starafrica.com\/news\/aljazeera-journalists-robbed-in-botswana.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana &#8211; Two British journalists working for Aljazeera TV English channel were robbed of their cameras, laptops and other expensive equipment during a burglary at a Gaborone guesthouse, the Midweek Sun newspaper reported here on Wednesday. The paper said the journalists, Sorious Samura and Clive Paterson, are in Botswana making a documentary on Botswana following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,2853,2863,2862,4718,2462,2852,2851,2856,2855,2861,2858,2857,2859,257,2854,2864,2860,254,4693,2865],"class_list":["post-4195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aljazeera","tag-blood-diamonds","tag-blood-diamonds-film","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-british-journalists","tag-british-journalists-working-for-aljazeera","tag-burglary","tag-burglary-at-a-gaborone-guesthouse","tag-clive-paterson","tag-gaborone","tag-gaborone-guesthouse","tag-guesthouse","tag-news","tag-robbed","tag-robbers-hit-them-in-what-was-supposed-to-be-a-well-secured-facility","tag-sorious-samura","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-well-secured-facility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}