{"id":208059,"date":"2025-09-24T11:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/somalia-repatriates-173-citizens-released-from-libyan-prisons\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:27:38","slug":"somalia-repatriates-173-citizens-released-from-libyan-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/somalia-repatriates-173-citizens-released-from-libyan-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Repatriates 173 Citizens Released From Libyan Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Mogadishu, Somalia \u2014 The Federal Government of Somalia successfully repatriated 173 citizens who had recently been released from detention centers in Libya, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">A plane carrying 151 returnees, mostly young people, landed at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, where they were warmly received by senior government officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">An additional 22 returnees were flown separately to Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Officials described the repatriation as a key part of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509240076.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu, Somalia \u2014 The Federal Government of Somalia successfully repatriated 173 citizens who had recently been released from detention centers in Libya, officials said. A plane carrying 151 returnees, mostly young people, landed at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, where they were warmly received by senior government officials. An additional 22 returnees were flown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":208060,"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":[891],"tags":[258,256,7604,892,6718,257,7398,6499,11459,4690,254],"class_list":["post-208059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-citizens","tag-libya-news","tag-libyan","tag-news","tag-prisons","tag-released","tag-repatriates","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/208059","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}