{"id":49616,"date":"2019-11-09T10:44:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T02:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49616"},"modified":"2019-11-09T10:44:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T02:44:52","slug":"us-places-al-qaeda-affiliate-leader-in-sahel-on-terrorism-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49616","title":{"rendered":"US places Al-Qaeda affiliate leader in Sahel on terrorism blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/923983\/400x225_923983.jpg?1573191000\" alt=\"US places Al-Qaeda affiliate leader in Sahel on terrorism blacklist\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;  The Trump administration is trying to turn up pressure on three senior al-Qaeda leaders in Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State Department placed the head of the main al-Qaeda affiliate in Mali on a terrorism blacklist. It also offered rewards for information leading to the location of two top members of al-Qaida\u2019s affiliate in Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sanctions are against Amadou Kouffa for attacks in Africa\u2019s Sahel region. The action announced Thursday freezes any assets he may have under U.S. jurisdiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A reward of up to $6 million was also offered for information about the emir of Yemen\u2019s Shabwah province for his role in al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the U.S. is offering up to $4 million for a Sudanese AQAP leader who once worked with Osama bin Laden. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Nov 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Trump administration is trying to turn up pressure on three senior al-Qaeda leaders in Africa and the Middle East. The State Department placed the head of the main al-Qaeda affiliate in Mali on a terrorism blacklist. It also offered rewards for information leading to the location of two top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,208,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49616"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}