{"id":94984,"date":"2020-10-03T10:11:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T02:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=94984"},"modified":"2020-10-03T10:11:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T02:11:18","slug":"pres-kenyatta-rules-out-approving-us-drone-strikes-against-somali-rebels-on-kenyas-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=94984","title":{"rendered":"Pres Kenyatta rules out approving US drone strikes against Somali rebels on Kenya&#8217;s soil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Kenya-s-leader-rules-out-approving-US-drone-strikes-1075774?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/530\/53028604.295.jpg\" alt=\"President Uhuru Kenyatta (R) is on a visit to France (Reuters)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>President Uhuru Kenyatta (R) is on a visit to France <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PARIS, Oct 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Kenya&#8217;s President Uhuru Kenyatta said that he would not approve US drone strikes on Somalia&#8217;s al-Shabaab militants on Kenyan soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president, who is on a state visit to France, told\u00a0France 24 that he had not yet received such a request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York Times had last month quoted unnamed US government sources as saying that the US military was seeking approval to carry out drone strikes against al-Shabaab targets in eastern Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report came days before a military court in Somalia sentenced a militant to life in prison for his role in a deadly attack on a US base in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the first attack by al-Shabaab militants on US forces in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya has troops in the 20,000-strong Africa Union force battling the militants in Somalia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US often carries out air strikes in Somalia to target al-Shabaab militants. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta (R) is on a visit to France PARIS, Oct 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Kenya&#8217;s President Uhuru Kenyatta said that he would not approve US drone strikes on Somalia&#8217;s al-Shabaab militants on Kenyan soil. The president, who is on a state visit to France, told\u00a0France 24 that he had not yet received such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":94985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94984"}],"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=94984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}