{"id":5213,"date":"2014-09-10T13:10:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T06:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2014-09-10T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T06:10:59","slug":"kenya-arrests-two-germans-over-alleged-al-shabab-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-arrests-two-germans-over-alleged-al-shabab-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Arrests Two Germans Over Alleged Al Shabab Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi &#8211; Kenyan authorities have detained two German nationals who they accuse of being members of the Somali Islamist group al Shabab, which has been blamed for a series of attacks on Kenyan soil, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We arrested the two foreigners following information that they had traveled to Somalia and joined the militant group fighting the government,&#8221; John Mulaulu, Kenya&#8217;s acting head of the anti-terrorism police, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two were arrested on Aug. 29 within the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, when they arrived from Somalia,&#8221; he said, adding that both men were German&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kenya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/kenya-arrests-two-germans-over-alleged-al-shabab-membership-n199211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi &#8211; Kenyan authorities have detained two German nationals who they accuse of being members of the Somali Islamist group al Shabab, which has been blamed for a series of attacks on Kenyan soil, police said Tuesday. &#8220;We arrested the two foreigners following information that they had traveled to Somalia and joined the militant group [&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":[250],"tags":[258,256,499,4002,4695,4000,2018,4688,430,259,257,4001,254],"class_list":["post-5213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-shabab","tag-anti-terrorism","tag-east-africa","tag-german-nationals","tag-islamist-group","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-somali-islamist-group-al-shabab","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213","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=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/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=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}