{"id":2622,"date":"2014-06-14T12:17:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T05:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2014-06-14T12:17:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T05:17:35","slug":"al-qaida-linked-al-shabaab-planning-attacks-in-djibouti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/al-qaida-linked-al-shabaab-planning-attacks-in-djibouti\/","title":{"rendered":"al-Qaida-linked Al-Shabaab planning attacks in Djibouti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia&#8217;s al-Qaida-linked al-Shabaab insurgents are planning further attacks in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, the Foreign Office has warned, after suicide bombers attacked a crowded restaurant last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are credible reports that al-Shabaab plan, and have the capability, to attack targets in Djibouti, including western interests,&#8221; the Foreign Office said, noting that &#8220;there is a high threat from terrorism&#8221; in the port city.<\/p>\n<p>Troops from Djibouti are part of the African Union in Somalia fighting the militants, and Djibouti&#8217;s port also serves as a key base for ships taking part in international anti-piracy operations off the Somali coast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; the Foreign Office statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month at least one person was killed and several wounded when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a restaurant, the first attack in Djibouti to be claimed by al-Shabaab since it joined the AU force in 2011&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jun\/12\/somali-insurgents-al-shabaab-planning-attacks-djibouti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somalia&#8217;s al-Qaida-linked al-Shabaab insurgents are planning further attacks in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, the Foreign Office has warned, after suicide bombers attacked a crowded restaurant last month. &#8220;There are credible reports that al-Shabaab plan, and have the capability, to attack targets in Djibouti, including western interests,&#8221; the Foreign Office said, noting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[258,256,711,713,708,571,712,714,4701,568,4695,257,709,4690,254,710],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","category-east-africa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union-in-somalia-fighting-the-militants","tag-african-union-peacekeeping-mission","tag-al-qaida","tag-al-shabaab-insurgents","tag-anti-piracy-operations-off-the-somali-coast","tag-au","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-east-africa","tag-news","tag-planning-further-attacks-in-the-horn-of-africa","tag-somalia","tag-suicide-bombers-attacked-a-crowded-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/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=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}