{"id":136043,"date":"2015-07-20T09:16:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T09:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=136043"},"modified":"2015-07-20T09:33:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T09:33:20","slug":"isis-kidnaps-ghanaian-two-others-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=136043","title":{"rendered":"ISIS kidnaps Ghanaian, two others  in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Islamic State militant group has kidnapped a Ghanaian Christian and two other Africans in eastern Libya,\u00a0Reuters said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other two are from Egypt and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The name of the Ghanaian has been given by the Terrormonitor website as\u00a0Sekyere Kofi Frimpong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Reuters, the announcement was made in a statement on social media, without further elaboration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ghanaian-kidnapped-in-libya-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-136047 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ghanaian-kidnapped-in-libya-2.jpg\" alt=\"ghanaian kidnapped in libya (2)\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ghanaian-kidnapped-in-libya-2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ghanaian-kidnapped-in-libya-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ghanaian-kidnapped-in-libya-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ghanaian-kidnapped-in-libya-2-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Reuters news agency also added that \u201cThe kidnapping took place in Noufliyah, an Islamic State stronghold southeast of the city of Sirte, said a resident, asking not to be named.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe militant group has expanded in the North African country by exploiting chaos and a security vacuum like it did in Iraq and Syria.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Islamic State militants have beheaded dozens and attacked foreign missions in Tripoli, while also fighting forces loyal to Libya&#8217;s two government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By:\u00a0 citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic State militant group has kidnapped a Ghanaian Christian and two other Africans in eastern Libya,\u00a0Reuters said on Sunday. The other two are from Egypt and Nigeria. The name of the Ghanaian has been given by the Terrormonitor website as\u00a0Sekyere Kofi Frimpong. According to the Reuters, the announcement was made in a statement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":136046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-136043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}