{"id":4198,"date":"2014-07-17T17:18:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2014-07-17T17:19:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T10:19:05","slug":"djibouti-to-contribute-additional-950-troops-to-amisom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-to-contribute-additional-950-troops-to-amisom\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti to contribute additional 950 troops to AMISOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Djibouti will contribute 950 additional troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in the coming months in an effort to consolidate gains made by its forces in Hiran region, Djibouti&#8217;s Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf told Bloomberg Wednesday (July 16th).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need that strengthening,&#8221; Youssouf said. &#8220;In a few weeks time, we should deploy 450 troops and then another 500 a couple of months later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Djibouti currently has 1,000 troops serving under AMISOM.<\/p>\n<p>Youssouf said security has been boosted across Djibouti after al-Shabaab militants carried out a suicide bombing at a restaurant in in the capital city in late May.<\/p>\n<p>He said five people have been arrested so far in connection with the attack, adding that the Somaliland regional administration has extradited six people involved in the attack and Djiboutian authorities are in talks with Ethiopia to extradite two additional suspects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investigation is still going on,&#8221; Youssouf said. &#8220;Once that investigation is concluded and submitted to the judge in the criminal court in Djibouti, then they will be put on trial.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Djibouti News\" href=\"http:\/\/sabahionline.com\/en_GB\/articles\/hoa\/articles\/newsbriefs\/2014\/07\/16\/newsbrief-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djibouti will contribute 950 additional troops to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in the coming months in an effort to consolidate gains made by its forces in Hiran region, Djibouti&#8217;s Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf told Bloomberg Wednesday (July 16th). &#8220;We need that strengthening,&#8221; Youssouf said. &#8220;In a few weeks time, we should [&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":[567],"tags":[258,256,1309,562,570,1030,4701,568,4695,2866,659,257,254,1703,2867],"class_list":["post-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union-mission-in-somalia","tag-al-shabaab-militants","tag-al-shabaab","tag-amisom","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-east-africa","tag-hiran-region","tag-militants","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suicide-bombing","tag-suicide-bombing-at-a-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198","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=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/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=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}