{"id":25913,"date":"2021-08-20T11:44:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=25913"},"modified":"2021-08-20T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:44:11","slug":"us-offers-5m-reward-for-ex-guinea-bissau-army-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/us-offers-5m-reward-for-ex-guinea-bissau-army-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"US Offers $5m Reward For Ex-Guinea-Bissau Army Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States has offered a $5m (\u00a33.7m) reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of former Guinea-Bissau military chief Antonio Indjai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Indjai led a coup in the West African country in 2012 before he was dismissed two years later in a democratic transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US authorities indicted him in 2013 on accusations of plotting to traffic cocaine and sell weapons to Colombian rebels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, the US Department of State noted that Mr Indjal had been a subject of a UN travel ban since May 2012 as a result of his participation in the coup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said he was seen as one of the \u201cmost powerful\u201d figures using illegal proceeds to corrupt and destabilize other foreign governments and undermine the rule of law throughout the region\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIndjai led a criminal organization [\u2026] even while serving as head of the Guinea Bissau Armed Forces,\u201d it said in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/department-of-state-offers-reward-for-information-to-bring-guinea-bissau-narcotics-trafficker-to-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He faces charges of narco-terrorism conspiracy, conspiracy to import cocaine among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has offered a $5m (\u00a33.7m) reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of former Guinea-Bissau military chief Antonio Indjai. Mr Indjai led a coup in the West African country in 2012 before he was dismissed two years later in a democratic transition. The US authorities indicted him in 2013 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":25915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[6705,31],"class_list":["post-25913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-antonio-indjai","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25916,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions\/25916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}