{"id":5902,"date":"2015-09-18T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5902"},"modified":"2015-09-18T15:27:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T13:27:57","slug":"al-shabaab-attack-on-somali-military-base-kills-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/somalia\/al-shabaab-attack-on-somali-military-base-kills-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabaab attack on Somali military base kills 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section body_p_tags\">\n<p>Mogadishu (dpa) &#8211; At least 10 people were killed Friday when\u00a0 al-Shabaab fighters attacked a Somali military base, a military commander in the region said.<\/p>\n<p>Six militants and four Somali soldiers were killed in the attack in the Lower Shabelle region early on Friday morning, Abdikafi Hilowle told dpa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tensions are still running high in the area as al-Shabaab fighters arrived in a large number, capturing many parts of that town this morning,&#8221; Hilowle said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somali troops are still struggling to hold barracks and fight back,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in the area said they heard a loud explosion followed by a gun battle. It is unclear whether that explosion came from a suicide car bombing.<\/p>\n<p>The attack is the latest by the al-Qaeda linked group in a series of assaults on African Union (AU) peacekeepers and Somali forces.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Somali security official in Mogadishu told dpa that al-Shabaab has retaken control of Janaale, an agriculturally-rich region in the south of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heavily armed militants captured Janaale shortly after AU troops vacated the area late yesterday,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month 50 AU troops from Uganda were killed after a surprise attack by the militants.<\/p>\n<p>DPA<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/News\/Al-Shabaab-attack-on-Somali-military-base-kills-10-20150918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media24<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu (dpa) &#8211; At least 10 people were killed Friday when\u00a0 al-Shabaab fighters attacked a Somali military base, a military commander in the region said. Six militants and four Somali soldiers were killed in the attack in the Lower Shabelle region early on Friday morning, Abdikafi Hilowle told dpa. &#8220;Tensions are still running high in [&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":[300,253],"tags":[4871,258,256,580,497,570,4866,714,4874,4695,4742,4869,449,257,4586,4870,263,4873,4867,4868,4872,254,4812,4707,2062],"class_list":["post-5902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-east-africa","category-somalia","tag-abdikafi-hilowle","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african-union","tag-al-qaeda","tag-al-shabaab","tag-al-shabaab-fighters","tag-au","tag-au-troops","tag-east-africa","tag-janaale","tag-lower-shabelle-region","tag-mogadishu","tag-news","tag-security","tag-shabelle-region","tag-somali","tag-somali-forces","tag-somali-military-base-attack","tag-somali-soldiers","tag-somali-troops","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suicide-car-bombing","tag-uganda","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902","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=5902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/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=5902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}