{"id":5188,"date":"2020-05-30T09:21:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T09:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2020-05-30T09:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T09:27:21","slug":"un-condemns-murder-of-health-workers-in-middle-shabelle-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/05\/30\/un-condemns-murder-of-health-workers-in-middle-shabelle-region\/","title":{"rendered":"UN condemns murder of health workers in Middle Shabelle region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> The UN humanitarian agency on Friday condemned the killing of seven health personnel and a civilian in Gololey village in Somalia&#8217;s Middle Shabelle region by unknown gunmen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adam Abdelmoula, the resident and humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, expressed shock at the killing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The eight Somali civilians were abducted on Wednesday from a non-governmental organization-run health clinic before their brutal killing, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Preliminary information indicates that they suffered brutal deaths,&#8221; Abdelmoula said in a statement issued in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN humanitarian official extended his deepest condolences to the families of the victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attacks against medical facilities and personnel are unacceptable and a breach of international humanitarian law and any common decency, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is unbelievable that this attack comes at a time when Somalia is grappling to contain a triple threat of a pandemic, flooding, and the resurgence of desert locusts,&#8221; Abdelmoula said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No arrest has been made in connection to the killings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2020-05\/29\/c_139098771.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; The UN humanitarian agency on Friday condemned the killing of seven health personnel and a civilian in Gololey village in Somalia&#8217;s Middle Shabelle region by unknown gunmen. Adam Abdelmoula, the resident and humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, expressed shock at the killing. The eight Somali civilians were abducted on Wednesday from a non-governmental organization-run &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-international-humanitarian-law","category-news","category-relief"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188","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=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5193,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions\/5193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}