{"id":3311,"date":"2014-06-28T17:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T10:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2014-06-28T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T10:46:09","slug":"al-shabaab-still-benefitting-from-kismayu-charcoal-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/al-shabaab-still-benefitting-from-kismayu-charcoal-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabaab still benefitting from Kismayu charcoal exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Shabaab is continuing to finance its operations through charcoal exports from the port of Kismayu, the United Nations Environmental Programme says in a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab makes as much as $56 million (Sh4.8 billion) a year by shipping charcoal from Kismayu and Baraawe, another port in southern Somalia, Unep estimates.<\/p>\n<p>The African Union Mission in Somalia is contesting Shabaab&#8217;s control of Baraawe, while Kismayu has been occupied by Kenyan troops since October 2012&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Shabaab-still-benefiting-from-Kismayu-charcoal-exports--says-UN\/-\/1056\/2364538\/-\/14mdtpyz\/-\/index.html\" 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>Al-Shabaab is continuing to finance its operations through charcoal exports from the port of Kismayu, the United Nations Environmental Programme says in a new report. Al-Shabab makes as much as $56 million (Sh4.8 billion) a year by shipping charcoal from Kismayu and Baraawe, another port in southern Somalia, Unep estimates. The African Union Mission in [&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":[258,256,570,499,1787,4695,1785,257,1784,4690,442,254,1786],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-shabaab","tag-al-shabab","tag-baraawe","tag-east-africa","tag-kismayu","tag-news","tag-port-of-kismayu","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united-nations-environmental-programme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","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=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/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=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}