{"id":4856,"date":"2017-07-25T10:38:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T10:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2017-07-26T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T10:42:46","slug":"mali-columnist-on-social-networks-escapes-assassination-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/mali-columnist-on-social-networks-escapes-assassination-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali: Columnist on social networks escapes assassination attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>In Bamako, a young social network columnist, Marchal Madou or \u201cMadou Ka Journal\u201d, was the target of several firearm shots on Tuesday, July 25, around 1 am, while driving in his vehicle.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He is a columnist on social networks and regularly comments on Malian news in his way. He is also part of this generation, as well as Ras Bath, who says he wants to \u201cshock to educate\u201d. His videos where they feature \u201ca news\u201d reach 20,000 views on Facebook. The government is severely criticized.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, as he left Boulkassoumbougou in his vehicle, \u201cMadou Ka journal\u201d (the Madou newspaper in the Bambara language, his Facebook page name) was hit with at least one bullet. The shooter is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere are a lot of bullet holes on the car and the driver&#8217;s side window completely broken. He was hit in the chest,\u201d<\/em> said a witness who went to the hospital where the columnist is being treated. According to reliable sources, the columnist is still under care, but his life would not be in danger. This Tuesday at 11 am, several associations call to gather at the Pyramid of Souvenirs to support the columnist.<\/p>\n<a  class=\"vc_btn vc_btn-black vc_btn-sm vc_btn_square \" href=\"#\">Sahelien.com<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bamako, a young social network columnist, Marchal Madou or \u201cMadou Ka Journal\u201d, was the target of several firearm shots on Tuesday, July 25, around 1 am, while driving in his vehicle. He is a columnist on social networks and regularly comments on Malian news in his way. He is also part of this generation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-a-la-une","8":"category-mali"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}