{"id":3890,"date":"2014-07-10T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2014-07-10T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T08:05:11","slug":"somali-troops-retake-presidential-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/somali-troops-retake-presidential-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali troops retake presidential palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somali troops have retaken the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu after al-Shabab fighters forced their way in and exchanged heavy gunfire with soldiers and guards.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s correspondent said loud explosions and gunfire could be heard as troops tried to repel the intruders on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>After more than two hours of fighting, Somalia&#8217;s presidency said on Twitter that &#8220;the shameful attack&#8221; had been foiled by Somalia&#8217;s armed forces fighting alongside African Union peacekeepers.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/07\/somali-troops-retake-presidential-palace-201478221939486268.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>Somali troops have retaken the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu after al-Shabab fighters forced their way in and exchanged heavy gunfire with soldiers and guards. Al Jazeera&#8217;s correspondent said loud explosions and gunfire could be heard as troops tried to repel the intruders on Tuesday evening. After more than two hours of fighting, Somalia&#8217;s [&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":[258,256,2470,499,4695,449,257,4690,442,254],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union-peacekeepers","tag-al-shabab","tag-east-africa","tag-mogadishu","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","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=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/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=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}