{"id":105197,"date":"2026-08-14T23:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=105197"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:20:33","slug":"a-50-million-hostage-ransom-funded-al-qaedas-mali-offensive-un-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=105197","title":{"rendered":"A $50 million hostage ransom funded al Qaeda&#8217;s Mali offensive, UN says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Aug 15 &#8211; An estimated $50 million ransom paid to free a hostage seized by al Qaeda-linked militants in Mali in late 2025 has helped to fund their advances across West Africa and the group&#8217;s global network, U.N. experts said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/middle-east\/a-50-million-hostage-ransom-funded-al-qaedas-mali-offensive-un-says\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Aug 15 &#8211; An estimated $50 million ransom paid to free a hostage seized by al Qaeda-linked militants in Mali in late 2025 has helped to fund their advances across West Africa and the group&#8217;s global network, U.N. experts said. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-105197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldnews","tag-yahoonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}