{"id":3244,"date":"2012-12-27T09:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T09:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daafeet.com\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2012-12-27T09:09:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T09:09:29","slug":"somali-forces-african-union-troops-secure-more-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/2012\/12\/27\/somali-forces-african-union-troops-secure-more-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali forces, African Union troops secure more areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daafeet.com\/?attachment_id=715\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-715\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-715\" alt=\"askar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daafeet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/askar.jpg?resize=240%2C146\" width=\"240\" height=\"146\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Government forces backed by African Union troops have secured an area of 30 kms North West of the capital Mogadishu. Security forces say that the capture of Saqiro sub-district and its surroundings has dealt a big blow to the Al-Shabaab fighters who have used such locations to stage sporadic attacks on the capital.<\/p>\n<p>They also say this is a major step in securing the strategic Mogadishu-Afgooye road that serves as a life line to thousands of people in south Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>In early December, a delegation of Somalia\u2019s government ministers including the defense and national security ministers as well as security officials were ambushed by Al-Shabaab fighters as they were returning to Mogadishu from a visit to the city of Marka, south of the capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p>AMISOM argues that such operations aim to boost the security of Mogadishu which is returning to normalcy after more than decades.<\/p>\n<p>The forces have lately captured major towns in south and central Somalia further extending the control of the Somali government.<\/p>\n<p>Army officials now hope that with public support the war against Al-Shabaab will soon come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Lower Juba regions of South Somalia, tension remains high as AMISOM troops from the Kenyan contingent advance deeper into Al-Shabaab territory.<\/p>\n<p>Also the allied forces are preparing to take control of Jilib town where al-Shabab are said to be regrouping to retaliate.<\/p>\n<p>For five years, the Al-Shabaab fighters have struggled to overthrow the U-N backed government in Somalia. However, the group has suffered setbacks in the past year after losing a string of towns to government forces backed by the African Union Mission in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Source Press Tv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government forces backed by African Union troops have secured an area of 30 kms North West of the capital Mogadishu. Security forces say that the capture of Saqiro sub-district and its surroundings has dealt a big blow to the Al-Shabaab fighters who have used such locations to stage sporadic attacks on the capital. They also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89N1L-Qk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}