{"id":14347,"date":"2024-06-11T23:26:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T23:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=14347"},"modified":"2024-06-13T07:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T07:36:40","slug":"relative-calm-restored-as-inter-clan-clashes-claim-60-lives-in-central-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2024\/06\/11\/relative-calm-restored-as-inter-clan-clashes-claim-60-lives-in-central-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Relative calm restored as inter-clan clashes claim 60 lives in central Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Relative peace has been restored in central Somalia&#8217;s Galmudug State after inter-clan skirmishes over the weekend that claimed more than 60 lives, officials confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abshir Abdi Shikhow, Galmudug&#8217;s minister of information, linked the fighting between militias from the two rival clans to a dispute over grazing land and water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shikhow added that the deadly fighting between the Dir and Marihan clans, which began on Saturday, has left more than 70 people injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As the Galmudug government, we have successfully ended the fighting and separated the militias,&#8221; Shikhow told Xinhua over the phone, adding that security has been beefed up in the conflict zone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the severely injured have been transferred to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, for specialized treatment, while blaming the al-Shabab militants for instigating the inter-clan violence in the Galmudug area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmed Abdi Karie, president of Galmudug State, has appointed a five-member committee comprising senior officials from the ministries of interior, finance, religious affairs, and information to negotiate for peace between the fighting clans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/africa\/20240611\/58e7d8d04d7b473ba823915df1f7ebd9\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">View original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Relative peace has been restored in central Somalia&#8217;s Galmudug State after inter-clan skirmishes over the weekend that claimed more than 60 lives, officials confirmed on Tuesday. Abshir Abdi Shikhow, Galmudug&#8217;s minister of information, linked the fighting between militias from the two rival clans to a dispute over grazing land and water. Shikhow added &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14347","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=14347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14349,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14347\/revisions\/14349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}