{"id":12289,"date":"2023-06-12T23:34:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T23:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=12289"},"modified":"2023-06-21T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:39:13","slug":"un-health-agency-employee-killed-in-terrorist-attack-on-hotel-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2023\/06\/12\/un-health-agency-employee-killed-in-terrorist-attack-on-hotel-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"UN health agency employee killed in terrorist attack on hotel in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday that one of its employees was among those killed in an attack last week on a popular beachside hotel in Somalia\u2019s capital by members of the al-Shabaab terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The siege on June 9 left six people dead and another 10 wounded, said police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019m heartbroken that we have lost a @WHO staff member in the recent attack in #Mogadishu, #Somalia. My heartfelt condolences to their families and to everyone who lost a loved one,\u201d the UN agency\u2019s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the WHO condemns any attacks on civilians and humanitarian workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The six people killed in the attack on the Pearl Beach Hotel and Restaurant in Mogadishu included members of the Somali security forces and civilians, according to a Somali police statement issued after security forces ended the hours-long siege.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab terrorist group claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a recent report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, humanitarian access in Somalia posed significant challenges in the first quarter of 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said from January to March, humanitarian partners reported a total of 112 access incidents across the country, and at least 12 of these incidents, or 11%, involved violence against humanitarian workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two humanitarian workers died during the period while carrying out their duties in Somalia, according to the UN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/world\/who-employee-killed-in-terrorist-attack-on-hotel-in-somalia\/2920016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday that one of its employees was among those killed in an attack last week on a popular beachside hotel in Somalia\u2019s capital by members of the al-Shabaab terrorist group. The siege on June 9 left six people dead and another 10 wounded, said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12292,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12289\/revisions\/12292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}