{"id":4784,"date":"2014-08-11T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2014-08-11T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T11:00:46","slug":"al-shabab-attack-au-base-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/al-shabab-attack-au-base-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabab attack AU base in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fighting between al-Shabab and government and African Union (AU) troops in the central Hiran region has left 18 people dead on both sides, the Somalian armed group has said.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told the AFP news agency on Saturday that the deaths occurred after the group’s fighters attacked a base of the AU force in Buloburde town, about 200km north of the capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n

The casualties could not be immediately confirmed, but the al-Qaeda-linked fighters said the dead included five of their own men.<\/p>\n

The government said six al-Shabab members had been killed, but gave no figures of any casualties on their side.<\/p>\n

“Nine soldiers with the African Union, four of their Somali counterparts, and five mujahedeen from our Shabab were killed in the fight,” Musab said…<\/p>\n

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Fighting between al-Shabab and government and African Union (AU) troops in the central Hiran region has left 18 people dead on both sides, the Somalian armed group has said. Al-Shabab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told the AFP news agency on Saturday that the deaths occurred after the group’s fighters attacked a base of the AU […]<\/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":[2717,258,256,580,499,714,3540,3541,4695,2866,3542,257,4690,442,254],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-abdulaziz-abu-musab","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union","tag-al-shabab","tag-au","tag-au-force-in-buloburde-town","tag-buloburde-town","tag-east-africa","tag-hiran-region","tag-mujahedeen","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","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=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/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=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}