{"id":33299,"date":"2023-03-10T15:55:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports"},"modified":"2023-03-10T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T16:10:22","slug":"governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports","title":{"rendered":"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The Office of the Governor of Central Equatoria State has refuted reports that Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony narrowly survived a deadly ambush on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A convoy of the state boss, who was on his way to Mangala Payam, reportedly came under serious attack from unknown gunmen, forcing him to return to Gondokoro.<\/p>\n<p>The incident reportedly took place along the Bilnyang Boma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe (the government) condemn the act of attack by the land grabbers in the Payam, county, and bomas of central Equatoria state,\u201d said Central Equatoria State minister of information, Andruga Mabe.<\/p>\n<p>Mabe claimed the attack could have been a retaliatory one by a section of the cartel accused of grabbing community lands in the state.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the state government apprehended more than 50 land grabbers in Gondokoro Payam of Central Equatoria state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shooting in Bilnyang Boma created panic among the community. How safe are the communities if the land grabbers can attack the government,\u201d posed our source.<\/p>\n<p>However, Derick Derickson, the Press Secretary in the Office of Governor termed the reports as \u201cmere fabrication by some anti-peace elements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: The City Review South Sudan<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. The Office of the Governor of Central Equatoria State has refuted reports that Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony narrowly survived a deadly ambush on Thursday. A convoy of the state boss, who was on his way to Mangala Payam, reportedly came under serious attack from unknown gunmen, forcing him to return to Gondokoro. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,3193,3898,233],"class_list":["post-33299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-anthony-adil","tag-gun-attack","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Office of the Governor of Central Equatoria State has refuted reports that Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony narrowly s ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Office of the Governor of Central Equatoria State has refuted reports that Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony narrowly s ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-10T15:55:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-10T16:10:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678451128.62.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-10T15:55:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-10T16:10:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports\"},\"wordCount\":203,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678451128.62.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"Anthony Adil\",\"Gun Attack\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports\",\"name\":\"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports - South Sudan\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678451128.62.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-10T15:55:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-10T16:10:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"The Office of the Governor of Central Equatoria State has refuted reports that Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony narrowly s ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678451128.62.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678451128.62.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":750,\"caption\":\"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/\",\"name\":\"South Sudan\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports - South Sudan","description":"The Office of the Governor of Central Equatoria State has refuted reports that Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony narrowly s ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports","og_description":"The Office of the Governor of Central Equatoria State has refuted reports that Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony narrowly s ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports","og_site_name":"South Sudan","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-03-10T15:55:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-03-10T16:10:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":750,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678451128.62.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports","datePublished":"2023-03-10T15:55:21+00:00","dateModified":"2023-03-10T16:10:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports"},"wordCount":203,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678451128.62.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-South-Sudan","Anthony Adil","Gun Attack","South-Sudan"],"articleSection":["all news","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports","name":"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports - South Sudan","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678451128.62.jpg","datePublished":"2023-03-10T15:55:21+00:00","dateModified":"2023-03-10T16:10:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"The Office of the Governor of Central Equatoria State has refuted reports that Governor Emmanuel Adil Anthony narrowly s ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678451128.62.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678451128.62.jpg","width":1000,"height":750,"caption":"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/governor-adil-denies-gun-ambush-reports#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Governor Adil denies gun-ambush reports"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/","name":"South Sudan","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}