{"id":236063,"date":"2022-09-02T18:56:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T16:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/united-states-us-citizen-hostage-released-in-niger?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-09-02T18:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T16:56:49","slug":"united-states-u-s-citizen-hostage-released-in-niger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/united-states-u-s-citizen-hostage-released-in-niger\/","title":{"rendered":"United States (U.S) Citizen Hostage Released in Niger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c8e1372a80256f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/c8e1372a80256f0\" alt=\"U.S. Embassy in Niger\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/c8e1372a80256f0\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=214939&amp;press_source=U.S. Embassy in Niger\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The United States welcomes reports that a U.S. hostage was released in Niger. \u202fWe express our deepest gratitude\u202fand\u202fappreciation to our Nigerien partners who assisted in securing the hostage&rsquo;s release.\u202f\u202fU.S. officials are maintaining contact with the individual, and we continue to provide all appropriate assistance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Biden Administration has no higher priority than bringing home U.S. nationals held hostage or wrongfully detained, and we will continue to work aggressively to secure their freedom around the world.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of U.S. Embassy in Niger.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The United States welcomes reports that a U.S. hostage was released in Niger. \u202fWe express our deepest gratitude\u202fand\u202fappreciation to our Nigerien partners who assisted in securing the hostage&rsquo;s release.\u202f\u202fU.S. officials are maintaining contact with the individual, and we continue to provide all appropriate assistance. The Biden Administration has no higher priority than bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-236063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/united-states-u-s-citizen-hostage-released-in-niger.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}