{"id":3798,"date":"2014-07-09T10:50:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T03:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2014-07-09T10:51:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T03:51:03","slug":"al-shabaab-launched-attack-on-somalias-presidential-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/al-shabaab-launched-attack-on-somalias-presidential-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Shabaab launched attack on Somalia\u2019s presidential palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu &#8211; Somalia\u2019s Islamist Al Shabaab rebels launched a major bomb attack and armed assault against the country\u2019s presidential palace late Tuesday, penetrating the heavily fortified complex and fighting a major gunbattle with security guards.<\/p>\n<p>Security sources said Somalia\u2019s internationally backed President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, was unharmed and safe with guards from the African Union\u2019s 22,000 strong AMISOM force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was an attack on the presidential palace, with gunmen attacking a checkpoint at the rear of the compound,\u201d police officer Ali Hussein told AFP. \u201cThere was a major explosion and security forces are fighting them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Al Shabaab spokesman said the Al Qaeda linked group was behind the attack, and claim their commandos had managed to seize the president\u2019s office inside the presidential compound known as the Villa Somalia&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2014\/07\/gunmen-in-major-attack-on-somalias-presidential-palace\/\" 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>Mogadishu &#8211; Somalia\u2019s Islamist Al Shabaab rebels launched a major bomb attack and armed assault against the country\u2019s presidential palace late Tuesday, penetrating the heavily fortified complex and fighting a major gunbattle with security guards. Security sources said Somalia\u2019s internationally backed President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, was unharmed and safe with guards from the African Union\u2019s [&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":[258,256,570,2377,1712,4695,357,2375,449,257,2378,2376,4690,442,254,2379],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-shabaab","tag-armed-assault","tag-bomb-attack","tag-east-africa","tag-islamist","tag-islamist-al-shabaab-rebels","tag-mogadishu","tag-news","tag-president-hassan-sheikh-mohamud","tag-rebels","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-villa-somalia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","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=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/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=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}