{"id":691428,"date":"2026-10-23T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=691428"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:22:15","slug":"senegalese-special-forces-escort-olympic-torch-across-14-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=691428","title":{"rendered":"Senegalese Special Forces escort Olympic torch across 14 regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, the Olympic flame is in Africa for an official IOC event. The Washington Times&#8217; Joseph Hammond spoke with Kandy Sarr of the Senegal Olympic Committee as the torch tours Senegal ahead of the Dakar Youth Olympics.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/10\/23\/Screenshot_2026-10-23_at_6.26.26AM_s1440x810.png?b902618a5575a8db94b5c0b671b87a203a26ff30\" title=\"Senegalese Special Forces escort Olympic torch across 14 regions\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, the Olympic flame is in Africa for an official IOC event. The Washington Times&#8217; Joseph Hammond spoke with Kandy Sarr of the Senegal Olympic Committee as the torch tours Senegal ahead of the Dakar Youth Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}