{"id":365346,"date":"2017-10-26T11:54:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T11:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=365346"},"modified":"2017-10-26T11:54:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T11:54:33","slug":"clooney-donates-1m-to-fight-war-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=365346","title":{"rendered":"Clooney donates $1m to fight war criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood actor George Clooney has given $1m (\u00a3750,000) to The Sentry campaign group to investigate people who finance and benefit from conflict in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"lx-stream-post-quote lx-stream-post-quote--default\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post-quote__body\">\n<p>Our focus is to make sure that war crimes don\u2019t pay. We want to make it more difficult for those willing to kill en masse to secure their political and economic objectives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"lx-stream-post-quote__cite gel-brevier gel-brevier-bold\"><cite class=\"lx-stream-post-quote__cite-name\"><\/cite><\/footer>\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post-quote__icon lx-stream-post-quote__icon--quote gel-icon gel-icon-quote\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"lx-stream-post-quote lx-stream-post-quote--default\">\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post-quote__body\">\n<p>When we\u2019re able to go after the warlords\u2019 wallets and bankrupt those who choose the bullet over the ballot, suddenly the incentives are for peace, not war; transparency, not corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"lx-stream-post-quote__cite gel-brevier gel-brevier-bold\"><cite class=\"lx-stream-post-quote__cite-name\"><\/cite><\/footer>\n<div class=\"lx-stream-post-quote__icon lx-stream-post-quote__icon--quote gel-icon gel-icon-quote\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t come completely out-of-the-blue, as the actor has involved himself in African politics before.<\/p>\n<p>Clooney has been involved in using satellites to<b><\/b>monitor military movement across the border between Sudan and South Sudan,\u00a0as Newsweek reported in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He also lobbied the US government about the Darfur crisis back in 2006, when Barack Obama was a senator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood actor George Clooney has given $1m (\u00a3750,000) to The Sentry campaign group to investigate people who finance and benefit from conflict in Africa. In a statement, he said: Our focus is to make sure that war crimes don\u2019t pay. We want to make it more difficult for those willing to kill en masse to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":365350,"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":[137],"tags":[1634],"class_list":["post-365346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-george-clooney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365346","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}