{"id":2745,"date":"2014-06-16T14:50:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T07:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2014-06-16T14:51:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T07:51:49","slug":"tension-somaliland-somalia-deploy-troops-on-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/tension-somaliland-somalia-deploy-troops-on-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension as Somaliland, Somalia deploy troops on border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tension is said to be mounting in the border regions of Sool and Sanaag, which are disputed between the central government in Mogadishu and breakaway Somaliland.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia and the self-declared Somaliland have sent troops into the disputed border regions of Sool and Sanaag, raising fears of a possible outbreak of fighting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that our soldiers have been deployed to the border with Somaliland,&#8221; Abdulhakim Abdullah, a lawmaker from the Somali region of Puntland, told Anadolu Agency by phone on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This comes in reaction to the decision by Somaliland to send troops to the disputed Sanaag region last Wednesday,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Tension is said to be mounting in the border regions of Sool and Sanaag, which are disputed between the central government in Mogadishu and breakaway Somaliland&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbulletin.net\/todays-news\/139059\/tension-as-somalia-somaliland-deploy-troops-on-border\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News East Africa <a title=\"Somalia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/somalia\/\">Somalia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tension is said to be mounting in the border regions of Sool and Sanaag, which are disputed between the central government in Mogadishu and breakaway Somaliland. Somalia and the self-declared Somaliland have sent troops into the disputed border regions of Sool and Sanaag, raising fears of a possible outbreak of fighting. &#8220;I can confirm 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":[300,253],"tags":[258,256,935,4695,449,257,934,4690,442,869,933,254],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-east-africa","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breakaway-somaliland","tag-east-africa","tag-mogadishu","tag-news","tag-sanaag","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-somaliland","tag-sool","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","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=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/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=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}