{"id":190588,"date":"2025-02-05T04:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-launches-security-operation-targeting-ola-hideouts-armed-group-denies-criminal-links\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T04:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:45:52","slug":"kenya-launches-security-operation-targeting-ola-hideouts-armed-group-denies-criminal-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-launches-security-operation-targeting-ola-hideouts-armed-group-denies-criminal-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Launches Security Operation Targeting Ola &#8216;Hideouts&#8217; &#8211; Armed Group Denies Criminal Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The National Police Service (NPS) of Kenya has launched a security operation, &#8216;Operation Ondoa Jangili,&#8217; to &#8220;flush out hideouts&#8221; allegedly used by the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) in Marsabit and Isiolo counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/nationalpoliceke\/posts\/pfbid0dLpnkqpJXGPgzywkLhzycM3zbCeDhHraF21g6DpiJUmcgRjWL2qsuuZGwpEkQ4tAl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> issued on February 3, 2025, the NPS said the operation targets &#8220;criminals conducting illegal operations&#8221; that threaten national security, including &#8220;arms, drug and human trafficking, illegal mining,&#8221; and &#8220;instigating tribal conflicts and kidnapping for ransom&#8221; in Sololo,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502040552.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Police Service (NPS) of Kenya has launched a security operation, &#8216;Operation Ondoa Jangili,&#8217; to &#8220;flush out hideouts&#8221; allegedly used by the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) in Marsabit and Isiolo counties. In a statement issued on February 3, 2025, the NPS said the operation targets &#8220;criminals conducting illegal operations&#8221; that threaten national security, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":190589,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,9663,9322,7651,5192,45525,4688,430,5957,6057,257,47803,8556,4586,254,15084],"class_list":["post-190588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-criminal","tag-denies","tag-group","tag-hideouts","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-launches","tag-links","tag-news","tag-ola","tag-operation","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-targeting"],"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\/190588","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=190588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}