{"id":250131,"date":"2026-11-13T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/somalia-somali-clan-elder-accuses-kenya-of-sheltering-laftagareen-and-associates-linked-to-al-shabaab\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T06:00:23","slug":"somalia-somali-clan-elder-accuses-kenya-of-sheltering-laftagareen-and-associates-linked-to-al-shabaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/somalia-somali-clan-elder-accuses-kenya-of-sheltering-laftagareen-and-associates-linked-to-al-shabaab\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Somali Clan Elder Accuses Kenya of Sheltering Laftagareen and Associates Linked to Al-Shabaab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Mogadishu, Somalia \u2014 A prominent elder from Somalia&#8217;s Mudulood clan has accused Kenya of hosting Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen and his associates, whom he alleged have links to the Al-Shabaab and are responsible for bloodshed of Somali and Kenyan civilians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Caaqil Nur Hussein Ali made the accusations at a news conference in Mogadishu on Thursday, sharply criticising the Kenyan government for allegedly providing shelter and political asylum to Laftagareen, his associates and his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130074.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Mogadishu, Somalia \u2014 A prominent elder from Somalia&#8217;s Mudulood clan has accused Kenya of hosting Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen and his associates, whom he alleged have links to the Al-Shabaab and are responsible for bloodshed of Somali and Kenyan civilians. Caaqil Nur Hussein Ali made the accusations at a news conference in Mogadishu on Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":250132,"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":[250],"tags":[5070,258,256,7804,5745,14299,9371,4688,430,55841,12237,257,33636,263,4690,254],"class_list":["post-250131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alshabaab","tag-associates","tag-clan","tag-elder","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-laftagareen","tag-linked","tag-news","tag-sheltering","tag-somali","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\/250131","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=250131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}