{"id":45986,"date":"2026-09-20T17:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45986"},"modified":"2026-09-20T17:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:24:40","slug":"sa-journalist-reportedly-missing-in-djibouti","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-journalist-reportedly-missing-in-djibouti\/","title":{"rendered":"SA journalist reportedly missing in Djibouti \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African (SA) journalist Micah Reddy and his local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, are reportedly missing in Djibouti. Reddy was also the Africa Co-ordinator for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances surrounding their disappearance are still being established. The ICIJ\u2019s Managing Editor Fergus Shiel says Reddy arrived in Djibouti on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Shiel, Reddy was due to leave the country on Monday, at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He says Reddy had met with a respected local fixer, Mahmoud, and was in contact with the ICIJ from a hotel at around 13:00 CAT on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shiel says Reddy vanished shortly afterwards and has not been heard from since.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The investigative journalism organisation says it quickly raised concerns about his disappearance with authorities in the United Kingdom, SA and Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45987,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-45986","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA journalist Micah Reddy and his local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, are reportedly missing in Djibouti","published_date":"2026-09-20 16:27:38","news_description":"SA journalist Micah Reddy and his local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, are reportedly missing in Djibouti","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45988,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45986\/revisions\/45988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}