{"id":3147,"date":"2014-06-25T09:56:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2014-06-25T09:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:56:17","slug":"kenyan-fighter-jets-bombed-al-shabaab-group-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/kenyan-fighter-jets-bombed-al-shabaab-group-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan fighter jets bombed al-Shabaab group in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan fighter jets have bombed the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group in Somalia, killing more than 80 of its fighters, the African Union (AU) force in Somalia has said.<\/p>\n<p>The assault on the villages of Anole and Kuday was part of an effort to &#8220;liberate&#8221; Somalia from al-Shabab&#8217;s grip, the AU added.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said a third area along the Kenya-Somalia border was also bombed.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan troops are part of the 22,000-strong AU force battling al-Shabab.<\/p>\n<p>The militant group denied it had suffered casualties during the bombing campaign&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-27976201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Somalia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/somalia\/\">Somalia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan fighter jets have bombed the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group in Somalia, killing more than 80 of its fighters, the African Union (AU) force in Somalia has said. The assault on the villages of Anole and Kuday was part of an effort to &#8220;liberate&#8221; Somalia from al-Shabab&#8217;s grip, the AU added. Witnesses said a third area [&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":[253],"tags":[258,256,580,497,570,499,1610,714,1612,4695,1611,257,4690,442,254,1609],"class_list":["post-3147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-shabaab","tag-al-shabab","tag-anole","tag-au","tag-au-force-battling-al-shabab","tag-east-africa","tag-kuday","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-villages-of-anole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147","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=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3147\/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=3147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}