{"id":1850,"date":"2018-08-13T15:58:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2018-08-13T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:59:17","slug":"somali-authorities-search-for-aid-workers-kidnapped-by-gunmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2018\/08\/13\/somali-authorities-search-for-aid-workers-kidnapped-by-gunmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali authorities search for aid workers kidnapped by gunmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>MOGADISHU (SOHA) &#8211;<\/strong><\/span> Somali security forces are searching for five aid workers who were kidnapped by gunmen in the south-west of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports indicate that the aid workers were abducted on the outskirts of Baidoa, which lies some 250 kilometers southwest of the capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were on a humanitarian mission in the remote village of Busley, where they were distributing nutritional supplements to displaced persons at a local camp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia\u2019s information minister in the southwest region Hassan Abdi Mohamed confirmed the kidnappings, but did not give further details of the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe cannot disclose any information on that matter for now but we can confirm that some people were abducted. The same scenario happened in Mogadishu earlier this year when a foreign humanitarian aid worker was kidnapped \u2013 Al-Shabaab can be responsible but we cannot confirm,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bay and Bakool regions where the kidnappings have occurred is one of several areas where U.N and several international aid agencies have been delivering aid to people facing starvation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The region has been the worst affected due to a recurrent drought that has claimed thousands of lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: CGTN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU (SOHA) &#8211; Somali security forces are searching for five aid workers who were kidnapped by gunmen in the south-west of the country. Reports indicate that the aid workers were abducted on the outskirts of Baidoa, which lies some 250 kilometers southwest of the capital Mogadishu. They were on a humanitarian mission in the remote &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-relief"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","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=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}