{"id":78882,"date":"2021-12-09T23:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/statement-by-unicef-eastern-and-southern-africa-regional-director-mohamed-m-malick-fall-following-bombing-in-mogadishu-somalia\/"},"modified":"2021-12-09T23:30:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:30:14","slug":"statement-by-unicef-eastern-and-southern-africa-regional-director-mohamed-m-malick-fall-following-bombing-in-mogadishu-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/statement-by-unicef-eastern-and-southern-africa-regional-director-mohamed-m-malick-fall-following-bombing-in-mogadishu-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Director Mohamed M. Malick Fall following bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/c4c0a79859a137c.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/c4c0a79859a137c\" rel=\"noopener\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least 13 school children and four school staff are among dozens reported to have been injured when a bomb detonated near a school in Mogadishu, Somalia in the early hours of Thursday morning. The blast is said to have claimed the lives of at least eight people. The bombing also damaged the school and its facilities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchools \u2013 and any other place where children congregate \u2013 should at all times be safe for children. Unfortunately, as we have seen in Somalia and other countries around the world, violent attacks are carried out in total disregard to the lives of civilians, including children and their families. This violence is not only morally egregious but is in violation of international humanitarian law. UNICEF calls upon all parties to always uphold the safety of children and protect them from any form of violence and harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/statement-by-unicef-eastern-and-southern-africa-regional-director-mohamed-m-malick-fall-following-bombing-in-mogadishu-somalia?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Democratic Republic of Congo\" href=\"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo \u201cAt least 13 school children and four school staff are among dozens reported to have been injured when a bomb detonated near a school in Mogadishu, Somalia in the early hours of Thursday morning. The blast is said to have claimed the lives of at least eight people. The bombing also damaged the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":78883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/c4c0a79859a137c.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[258,256,5071,4696,281,400,4691,450,279,280,7152,9140,40835,449,7236,257,4268,4690,254,7153,6065,445],"class_list":["post-78882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dr-congo","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bombing","tag-central-africa","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-director","tag-dr-congo","tag-dr-congo-news","tag-drc","tag-drc-news","tag-eastern","tag-fall","tag-malick","tag-mogadishu","tag-mohamed","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-statement","tag-unicef"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/c4c0a79859a137c.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78882","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}