{"id":197183,"date":"2025-05-01T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/somalia-somali-darwish-police-unit-graduates-in-djibouti-ready-to-join-fight-against-al-shabaab\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:27:47","slug":"somalia-somali-darwish-police-unit-graduates-in-djibouti-ready-to-join-fight-against-al-shabaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/somalia-somali-darwish-police-unit-graduates-in-djibouti-ready-to-join-fight-against-al-shabaab\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Somali Darwish Police Unit Graduates in Djibouti, Ready to Join Fight Against Al-Shabaab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A new class of Somali police officers has completed training in Djibouti, marking a significant milestone in regional security cooperation and Somalia&#8217;s ongoing fight against the Al-Shabaab militant group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The 22nd unit of the Somali Darwish Police graduated during a ceremony attended by high-level officials, including Deputy Police Chief General Osman Abdullahi (Kaniif), Somali government ministers, and foreign diplomats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The graduation, held in Djibouti, celebrated the successful completion of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505010108.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>A new class of Somali police officers has completed training in Djibouti, marking a significant milestone in regional security cooperation and Somalia&#8217;s ongoing fight against the Al-Shabaab militant group. The 22nd unit of the Somali Darwish Police graduated during a ceremony attended by high-level officials, including Deputy Police Chief General Osman Abdullahi (Kaniif), Somali government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":197184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,7804,51258,4701,568,4345,10075,7107,257,662,8479,263,4690,254,13013],"class_list":["post-197183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alshabaab","tag-darwish","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-fight","tag-graduates","tag-join","tag-news","tag-police","tag-ready","tag-somali","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197183","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=197183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}