{"id":79276,"date":"2025-09-05T19:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=79276"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:17:48","slug":"a-bullet-went-through-my-skull-tanzania-abduction-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/05\/a-bullet-went-through-my-skull-tanzania-abduction-survivor\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A bullet went through my skull&#8217;: Tanzania abduction survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1680\/cpsprodpb\/8b06\/live\/6367b7e0-88c2-11f0-b391-6936825093bd.jpg\" alt=\"A head shot of Edgar Mwakabela taken from below with a scar around his jaw clearly visible. He is pointing at his jaw.\" width=\"589\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of his abduction on a highway in Tanzania&#8217;s main city Dar es Salaam, social media activist Edgar Mwakabela, better known as Sativa, says he came close to death.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c78zdzvgw90o\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>In the wake of his abduction on a highway in Tanzania&#8217;s main city Dar es Salaam, social media activist Edgar Mwakabela, better&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/tanzania.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79277,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79276\/revisions\/79277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}