{"id":249996,"date":"2026-11-12T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/somalia-repatriates-171-citizens-stranded-in-libya-pledges-medical-support\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T11:30:16","slug":"somalia-repatriates-171-citizens-stranded-in-libya-pledges-medical-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/somalia-repatriates-171-citizens-stranded-in-libya-pledges-medical-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Repatriates 171 Citizens Stranded in Libya, Pledges Medical Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Mogadishu, Somalia \u2014 The Somali federal government has repatriated 171 citizens who had been stranded in Libya, bringing them home as part of efforts to protect vulnerable migrants and support their return to society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The returnees arrived at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, where they were officially welcomed by senior government officials and representatives of international organizations working on humanitarian assistance, migration and community reintegration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The reception was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611120076.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Somali federal government has repatriated 171 citizens who had been stranded in Libya, bringing them home as part of efforts to protect vulnerable migrants and support their return to society. The returnees arrived at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, where they were officially welcomed by senior government officials and representatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":249997,"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":[258,256,7604,4711,892,7417,257,7287,11459,4690,254,7248,6096],"class_list":["post-249996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-citizens","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-pledges","tag-repatriates","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stranded","tag-support"],"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\/249996","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=249996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}