{"id":39101,"date":"2019-04-23T05:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39101"},"modified":"2019-04-23T05:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:22:58","slug":"us-puts-up-10m-reward-for-hezbollah-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39101","title":{"rendered":"US puts up $10m reward for Hezbollah information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"54\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi will lead two emergency summits with other African leaders on Tuesday to address events in Sudan and Libya, his presidency said.<br \/>The leaders will focus on \u201cthe evolution of the situation in Sudan\u201d where protests continue after the military toppled president Omar Al-Bashir.<br \/>They will also seek to \u201cstem the current crisis\u201d in Libya, where commander Khalifa Haftar is leading an offensive on Tripoli, Egypt\u2019s presidency said in a statement.<br \/>El-Sisi is also the current president of the African Union.<br \/>He will receive the Chadian president Idriss Deby, Rwanda\u2019s head of state Paul Kagame, Congo\u2019s Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Somalia\u2019s Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and South Africa\u2019s Cyril Ramaphosa as well as Dijbouti\u2019s leader Ismail Omar Guelleh.<br \/>The planned summits are the first to be convened by African leaders on the current crises in Sudan and Libya.<br \/>For Sudan, the objective \u201cis to discuss &#8230; the most appropriate ways to address the evolution of the situation and to contribute to stability and peace,\u201d Egypt\u2019s presidency said.<br \/>The AU on April 15 threatened to suspend Sudan if the military does not hand over power within 15 days of that date to a civilian authority.<br \/>President of the African Union commission Moussa Faki is also expected to participate in the discussions, along with officials from Ethiopia, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria.<br \/>Another summit on Libya, which will bring together the leaders of Rwanda, South Africa and the Congo with El-Sisi, will focus on \u201crelaunching a political process&#8230; (and) the elimination of terrorism,\u201d Egypt\u2019s presidency said.<br \/>Strongman Haftar\u2019s self-styled Libyan National Army launched an offensive against Tripoli, the seat of the internationally recognized Government of National Accord, on April 4.<br \/>Egypt is a strong ally of Haftar, who is also backed by the UAE and \u2014 according to the White House \u2014 was consulted by US President Donald Trump in a phone call last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi will lead two emergency summits with other African leaders on Tuesday to address events in Sudan and Libya, his presidency said.The leaders will focus on \u201cthe evolution of the situation in Sudan\u201d where protests continue after the military toppled president Omar Al-Bashir.They will also seek to \u201cstem the current&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}