{"id":5252,"date":"2017-12-11T15:41:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2017-12-21T15:49:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T15:49:56","slug":"niger-many-weapons-and-ammunition-seized-in-two-days-in-agadez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/niger-many-weapons-and-ammunition-seized-in-two-days-in-agadez\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger : many weapons and ammunition seized in two days in Agadez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Agadez, police seized on Sunday, December 10, new weapons, ammunition and magazines in two vehicles heading to Zinder. This Monday morning, a new seizure was made at the exit of Agadez.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Weapons were discovered during a routine check yesterday at around 11:00, according to the Nigerien police. In total, forty-two firearms and fifteen magazines were discovered in sound equipment and two hundred cartridges hidden in cans.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven people including two Nigerians have been arrested, said a security source who adds that the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, a shipment of new weapons was found in a vehicle heading to Nigeria. The traffickers used the same process as yesterday. But this time, the bullets were camouflaged in a brand new tire (not in cans, ed.) packaged from Libya. The weapons themselves were in loudspeakers.<\/p>\n<p>In Agadez, many localities are passageways for traffic of all kinds. The first quarter of 2017, was marked by an increase in ammunition, weapons and narcotics seizures in Aderbissinat, a commune in the Agadez region.<\/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 Agadez, police seized on Sunday, December 10, new weapons, ammunition and magazines in two vehicles heading to Zinder. This Monday morning, a new seizure was made at the exit of Agadez. Weapons were discovered during a routine check yesterday at around 11:00, according to the Nigerien police. In total, forty-two firearms and fifteen magazines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,62],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-niger","8":"category-security"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","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=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5254,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions\/5254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahelien.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}