{"id":3259,"date":"2014-06-27T18:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T11:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2014-06-27T18:26:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T11:26:43","slug":"somalias-al-shabaab-kill-african-union-soldiers-in-bulo-burde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/somalias-al-shabaab-kill-african-union-soldiers-in-bulo-burde\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia&#8217;s al-Shabaab kill African Union soldiers in Bulo-burde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least two soldiers with the African Union force have been killed in Somalia following an attack on a military base by militant Islamist group al-Shabab.<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen stormed the base in the central town of Bulo-burde, leading to a heavy exchange of gunfire, residents said.<\/p>\n<p>The town has been under siege from al-Shabab since peacekeepers took control of it in March.<\/p>\n<p>The African Union (AU) has a 22,000-strong force in Somalia to help the weak government fight al-Shabab.<\/p>\n<p>The al-Qaeda-linked group wants to establish an Islamic state in Somalia&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28034961\" 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>At least two soldiers with the African Union force have been killed in Somalia following an attack on a military base by militant Islamist group al-Shabab. Gunmen stormed the base in the central town of Bulo-burde, leading to a heavy exchange of gunfire, residents said. The town has been under siege from al-Shabab since peacekeepers [&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":[258,256,579,497,570,499,1757,4695,1758,645,257,4690,442,254],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union-force","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-shabaab","tag-al-shabab","tag-bulo-burde","tag-east-africa","tag-establish-an-islamic-state-in-somalia","tag-islamic","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","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=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/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=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}