{"id":190429,"date":"2025-02-03T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-defense-ministry-claims-drone-strike-conducted-within-its-territory-killing-eight-terrorists-amid-civilian-casualties\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:54:58","slug":"djibouti-defense-ministry-claims-drone-strike-conducted-within-its-territory-killing-eight-terrorists-amid-civilian-casualties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-defense-ministry-claims-drone-strike-conducted-within-its-territory-killing-eight-terrorists-amid-civilian-casualties\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti Defense Ministry Claims Drone Strike Conducted &#8216;Within Its Territory,&#8217; Killing Eight &#8216;Terrorists&#8217; Amid Civilian Casualties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Djibouti&#8217;s Ministry of Defense has confirmed carrying out a drone strike on 30 January in Addorta, a locality within Djibouti&#8217;s territory, about six kilometers from the Ethiopian border, stating that the attack killed &#8220;eight terrorists&#8221; and resulted in civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The statement, issued on 1 February, said the location had been &#8220;under surveillance for a week&#8221; and was identified as a &#8220;logistical and operational base&#8221; used by the group. It claimed eight individuals were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502030371.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Abeba \u2014 Djibouti&#8217;s Ministry of Defense has confirmed carrying out a drone strike on 30 January in Addorta, a locality within Djibouti&#8217;s territory, about six kilometers from the Ethiopian border, stating that the attack killed &#8220;eight terrorists&#8221; and resulted in civilian casualties. The statement, issued on 1 February, said the location had been &#8220;under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":190430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,20630,16783,8117,28222,8027,4701,568,23813,7805,6857,257,254,2080,5072,1775],"class_list":["post-190429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-casualties","tag-civilian","tag-claims","tag-conducted","tag-defense","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-drone","tag-killing","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-territory","tag-terrorists"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}