{"id":2556,"date":"2014-06-12T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T14:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2014-06-13T10:02:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T03:02:20","slug":"al-shabaab-planning-more-djibouti-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/al-shabaab-planning-more-djibouti-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabaab planning more Djibouti attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nairobi, Kenya – Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab insurgents are planning further attacks in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, Britain warned Thursday, after suicide bombers last month attacked a crowded restaurant.<\/p>\n

“There are credible reports that al-Shabaab plan, and have the capability, to attack targets in Djibouti, including Western interests,” the Foreign Office said, noting “there is a high threat from terrorism” in the port city.<\/p>\n

Troops from Djibouti are part of the African Union force in Somalia fighting the Al-Shabaab, and Djibouti’s port also serves as a key base for ships taking part in international anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast.<\/p>\n

“Djibouti and Western interests within Djibouti may be seen as a legitimate target by al-Shabaab because of its support to the Somali government and its participation in the African Union peacekeeping mission,” the Foreign Office statement said…<\/p>\n

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Nairobi, Kenya – Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab insurgents are planning further attacks in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, Britain warned Thursday, after suicide bombers last month attacked a crowded restaurant. “There are credible reports that al-Shabaab plan, and have the capability, to attack targets in Djibouti, including Western interests,” the Foreign Office said, noting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567,300,250,253],"tags":[258,256,580,579,587,569,570,571,577,582,583,586,573,4701,568,578,581,584,4688,259,257,588,572,585,4690,254,574,575,576],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","category-east-africa","category-kenya","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union","tag-african-union-force","tag-african-union-peacekeeping","tag-al-qaeda-linked-al-shabaab","tag-al-shabaab","tag-al-shabaab-insurgents","tag-al-shabaab-terrorism","tag-anti-piracy","tag-anti-piracy-operations","tag-anti-piracy-somali-coast","tag-britain","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-djibouti-troops","tag-fighting-al-shabaab","tag-international-anti-piracy-operations","tag-kenya","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-peacekeeping-mission","tag-planning-further-attacks-in-djibouti","tag-somali-coast","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suicide-bombers","tag-suicide-bombers-djibouti","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}