{"id":61808,"date":"2018-10-12T09:55:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T08:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=61808"},"modified":"2018-10-12T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T08:55:47","slug":"africas-youngest-billionaire-abducted-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/africas-youngest-billionaire-abducted-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s youngest billionaire abducted in Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Africa\u2019s youngest billionaire has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam, local media reported.<\/h2>\n<p>According to The Daily News, an English-language newspaper in Tanzania, 43-year-old businessman Mohammed Dewji was abducted Thursday morning as he was about to enter a gym at a local hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes magazine estimates Dewji\u2019s wealth at $1.5 billion, making him the 17th richest person in Africa and the continent\u2019s youngest billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>Dar es Salaam regional police commissioner Lazaro Mambosasa said three people have been arrested in connection with the abduction.<\/p>\n<p>Dewji owns the MeTL Group, which operates in 35 industries across several African countries.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as a member of parliament for the ruling Chama cha Mapunduzi party from 2005-2015.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s youngest billionaire has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam, local media reported. According to The Daily News, an English-language newspaper in Tanzania, 43-year-old businessman Mohammed Dewji was abducted Thursday morning as he was about to enter a gym at a local hotel. Forbes magazine estimates Dewji\u2019s wealth &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,118,101,14],"tags":[77153,13342,1040],"class_list":["post-61808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-africa","tag-forbes","tag-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}