{"id":682,"date":"2015-02-03T17:54:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T15:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2015-02-03T17:54:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T15:54:59","slug":"darfur-militants-kidnap-2-russia-pilots-unamid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Darfur militants kidnap 2 Russia pilots: UNAMID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Unidentified militants on Jan. 29 kidnapped two Russian pilots in Zalingei [capital city of Central Darfur state] as they were on board a bus in the city.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_683\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/South-Sudan-rebel-attack_030215.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/South-Sudan-rebel-attack_030215.jpg\" alt=\"South-Sudan-rebel-attack\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/South-Sudan-rebel-attack_030215.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/South-Sudan-rebel-attack_030215-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">14 killed in rebel attack on South Sudan&#8217;s Renk. (Photo by www.wanacenter.ir)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) confirmed Tuesday that two Russian pilots working for a company contracted by the mission had been kidnapped by militants in the restive Sudanese region last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unidentified militants on Jan. 29 kidnapped two Russian pilots in Zalingei [capital city of Central Darfur state] as they were on board a bus in the city,&#8221; UNAMID spokesman Ashraf Eissa told The Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mission is currently working with the Sudanese authorities to secure the two pilots&#8217; release,&#8221; he said, declining to give further details to ensure the pilots&#8217; safety.<\/p>\n<p>Darfur has been the scene of a ferocious war between the Sudanese government and three rebel movements since 2003. The conflict has left 300,000 people dead and around 2.5 million others displaced, according to UN figures.<\/p>\n<p>The Sudanese government, however, insists that the death toll does not exceed 10,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>UNAMID has been working in Darfur since early 2008. It is the second largest peacekeeping mission in the world, containing 20,000 troops, policemen and personnel from several countries.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: AA\/ <strong>Kartoum<\/strong>\u00a0(03 February 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unidentified militants on Jan. 29 kidnapped two Russian pilots in Zalingei [capital city of Central Darfur state] as they were on board a bus in the city. The UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) confirmed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,36,1,21],"tags":[521,524,518,520,523,527,526,525,522,519],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}