{"id":16555,"date":"2016-01-15T17:24:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=16555"},"modified":"2016-01-15T17:24:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:24:18","slug":"al-shabab-seizes-african-union-base-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/01\/15\/al-shabab-seizes-african-union-base-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabab seizes African Union base in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Shabab militants have overrun an African Union military base outside the southern Somali town of el-Ade.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamist group says it has taken &#8220;complete control&#8221; of the AU camp and killed more than 60 Kenyan soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Residents told the BBC that al-Shabab had raised its flag at a camp for Kenyan troops and said insurgents had paraded bodies through the town.<\/p>\n<p>But Kenya&#8217;s army spokesman said it was a nearby Somali base that was stormed and Kenyan troops counter-attacked.<\/p>\n<p>The number of casualties on both sides was not known, Kenyan military spokesman Col David Obonyo said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He told the BBC that reports of high Kenyan casualties were &#8220;normal propaganda from al-Shabab&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya contributes more than 4,000 troops to the 22,000-strong AU force that is in Somalia helping the UN-backed government battle al-Shabab, which is part of al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Shabab militants have overrun an African Union military base outside the southern Somali town of el-Ade. The Islamist group says it has taken &#8220;complete control&#8221; of the AU camp and killed more than 60 Kenyan soldiers. Residents told the BBC that al-Shabab had raised its flag at a camp for Kenyan troops and said insurgents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}