{"id":5219,"date":"2014-09-10T13:23:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T06:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2014-09-10T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T06:23:58","slug":"somalia-car-bomb-suicide-attack-kills-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/somalia-car-bomb-suicide-attack-kills-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia car bomb suicide attack &#8216;kills 12&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide car bomber has killed 12 people in an attack aimed at African Union (AU) troops in Somalia, an official has said.<\/p>\n<p>A car laden with explosives was rammed into an AU convoy travelling south-west of the capital, Mogadishu, said local governor Adukadir Mohamed Sidi.<\/p>\n<p>The militant Islamist group al-Shabab said it was behind the attack. It had earlier vowed to avenge the killing of its leader Ahmed Abdi Godane last week.<\/p>\n<p>Godane died in a US air strike.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s attack took place on the road between Mogadishu and Afgoye town, some 30km (19 miles) from the capital&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Somalia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-29113637\" 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 suicide car bomber has killed 12 people in an attack aimed at African Union (AU) troops in Somalia, an official has said. A car laden with explosives was rammed into an AU convoy travelling south-west of the capital, Mogadishu, said local governor Adukadir Mohamed Sidi. The militant Islamist group al-Shabab said it was behind [&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":[258,256,580,3242,499,714,4011,4695,2018,4012,257,4690,442,254,4010],"class_list":["post-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union","tag-ahmed-abdi-godane","tag-al-shabab","tag-au","tag-au-convoy","tag-east-africa","tag-islamist-group","tag-militant-islamist-group-al-shabab","tag-news","tag-somalia","tag-somalia-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suicide-car-bomber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219","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=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/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=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}