{"id":16094,"date":"2019-03-25T12:38:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T04:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=16094"},"modified":"2019-03-25T12:38:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T04:38:35","slug":"somalia-al-shabaab-militants-attack-ministry-deputy-labour-minister-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=16094","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Al-Shabaab militants attack ministry, deputy labour minister killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MOGADISHU, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia have attacked a government building in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 11 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy labour minister Saqar Ibrahim Abdala and several policemen were amongst those killed, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The militants first staged a suicide car bomb attack and then stormed into the ministry offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Shabaab has continued to mount regular attacks in Mogadishu since it was forced out of the city in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five rebels were reported to have been involved. Somali officials said they had all been killed and the area secured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US has sharply increased its air strikes against the group, which is linked to al-Qaeda, since President Donald Trump took power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials in Somalia say that al-Shabaab has increased its attacks in Mogadishu as retaliation for the air strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US State Department says al-Shabaab retains control over large parts of the country and has the ability to carry out high-profile attacks using suicide bombers, explosive devices, mortars and small arms. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, March 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia have attacked a government building in the capital, Mogadishu, killing at least 11 people. Deputy labour minister Saqar Ibrahim Abdala and several policemen were amongst those killed, officials said. The militants first staged a suicide car bomb attack and then stormed into the ministry offices. Al-Shabaab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}