{"id":4640,"date":"2014-08-03T14:30:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T07:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2014-08-03T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T07:31:03","slug":"somali-mp-shot-dead-outside-mosque-by-al-shabaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/somali-mp-shot-dead-outside-mosque-by-al-shabaab\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali MP shot dead outside mosque by al-Shabaab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Somali MP has been assassinated in Somalia&#8217;s capital, Mogadishu &#8211; the fifth parliamentarian to be killed this year.<\/p>\n<p>Aden Madeer was shot when he left a mosque in the city after Friday prayers, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamist militant group al-Shabab told the BBC it carried out the assassination.<\/p>\n<p>The al-Qaeda aligned militants said they would continue to target MPs who supported the UN-backed government&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28614601\" 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>A Somali MP has been assassinated in Somalia&#8217;s capital, Mogadishu &#8211; the fifth parliamentarian to be killed this year. Aden Madeer was shot when he left a mosque in the city after Friday prayers, witnesses said. The Islamist militant group al-Shabab told the BBC it carried out the assassination. The al-Qaeda aligned militants said they [&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":[3384,258,256,497,570,499,3383,4695,357,356,3385,358,449,2527,257,4690,442,254,3386],"class_list":["post-4640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-aden-madeer","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-shabaab","tag-al-shabab","tag-assassinated","tag-east-africa","tag-islamist","tag-islamist-militant-group","tag-islamist-militant-group-al-shabab","tag-militant-group","tag-mogadishu","tag-mosque","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-un-backed-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640","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=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/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=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}