{"id":422474,"date":"2023-11-27T08:50:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T05:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=422474"},"modified":"2023-11-27T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T05:16:08","slug":"sierra-leone-president-said-calm-resorted-most-leaders-of-barracks-attack-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/sierra-leone-president-said-calm-resorted-most-leaders-of-barracks-attack-detained\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone president said calm resorted, most leaders of barracks attack detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio said most of the leaders of an attack on a military barracks in the capital Freetown earlier on Sunday had been arrested, adding that security operations and an investigation were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will ensure that those responsible are held accountable,&#8221; Bio said on national television.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As your commander-in-chief, I want to assure everybody who is resident in Sierra Leone that we have overcome this challenge,&#8221; he said, and calm had been restored.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the government said security forces had repelled &#8220;renegade soldiers&#8221; who attempted to break into a military armoury in Freetown during the early hours of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A nationwide curfew was imposed. Gunfire was heard across the city as the assailants attacked a prison and a police station.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties in the barracks attack or during the gunfire in Freetown on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: Reuters<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio said most of the leaders of an attack on a military barracks in the capital Freetown earlier on Sunday had been arrested, adding that security operations and an investigation were ongoing. &#8220;We will ensure that those responsible are held accountable,&#8221; Bio said on national television. &#8220;As your commander-in-chief, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":422476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-422474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422477,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422474\/revisions\/422477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}