{"id":21277,"date":"2015-11-20T09:16:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T09:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/australian-newspaper-mistakes-south-africa-for\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T09:16:14","slug":"australian-newspaper-mistakes-south-africa-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/australian-newspaper-mistakes-south-africa-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian newspaper mistakes South Africa for Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Johannesburg – Australian newspaper The Advertiser mistakenly tweeted on Friday that gunmen had attacked a hotel in South Africa, instead of one in Mali. } <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Department of International Relations and Co-operation could not be immediately reached to comment on whether any South Africans were affected in the Mali attack. <\/p>\n

The Advertiser earlier tweeted: “Jihadists launch shooting rampage and take hostages in South Africa”.<\/p>\n

Jihadists launch shooting rampage and take hostages in South Africa https:\/\/t.co\/2WO5TjdqTw
\n \u2014 The Advertiser (@theTiser) November 20, 2015<\/p>\n

Several users then tweeted that South Africa and Mali are two different countries.<\/p>\n

@theTiser Mali is a long way from South Africa – you might need a map!
\n \u2014 Barnaby Caddick (@barneycaddick) November 20, 2015<\/p>\n

Almost an hour later it put out a tweet saying: “Correcting previous Tweet: Jihadists launch shooting rampage and take hostages in Africa.”<\/p>\n

Correcting previous Tweet: Jihadists launch shooting rampage and take hostages in Africa https:\/\/t.co\/2WO5TiVPuW
\n \u2014 The Advertiser (@theTiser) November 20, 2015<\/p>\n

According to reports, at least 170 people were taken hostage at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako. Some were freed after they apparently recited verses of the Qur’an.<\/p>\n

Reportedly, three hostages have been killed.<\/p>\n

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NEWS 24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{Johannesburg – Australian newspaper The Advertiser mistakenly tweeted on Friday that gunmen had attacked a hotel in South Africa, instead of one in Mali. } Meanwhile, the Department of International Relations and Co-operation could not be immediately reached to comment on whether any South Africans were affected in the Mali attack. The Advertiser earlier tweeted: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070269,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21277.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21277.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21277.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21277.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21277.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21277.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21277"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21277"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}