{"id":6710,"date":"2020-10-14T23:23:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=6710"},"modified":"2020-10-21T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T11:47:31","slug":"un-pays-tribute-to-the-victims-and-survivors-of-14-oct-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/10\/14\/un-pays-tribute-to-the-victims-and-survivors-of-14-oct-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"UN pays tribute to the victims and survivors of 14 Oct blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xmsonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> On the third anniversary of the 14 October, 2017 suicide bombing in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, the United Nations today paid tribute to the victims and survivors of the horrific attack and reaffirmed the world body\u2019s solidarity with all Somalis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTogether with Somalis, the United Nations family is focused on the future and on continuing to build on progress towards peace, good governance, and prosperity\u201d.\u00a0 Advances since 2017 are a reflection of Somalis\u2019 resilience and desire for a better tomorrow despite the scourge of violent extremism. The callous brutality of the attack on 14 October 2017 is not forgotten, however, and our thoughts remain with the families of those who lost their lives, as well as with the survivors,\u201d said the UN Secretary-General&#8217;s Special Representative for Somalia, James Swan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack killed at least 587 people and ranks as the deadliest ever terrorist bombing in Africa involving the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Hundreds more were injured in the blast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: UNSOM\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin:<a href=\"https:\/\/unsom.unmissions.org\/%C2%A0third-anniversary-united-nations-remembers-victims-deadly-mogadishu-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonospacing\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; On the third anniversary of the 14 October, 2017 suicide bombing in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, the United Nations today paid tribute to the victims and survivors of the horrific attack and reaffirmed the world body\u2019s solidarity with all Somalis. \u201cTogether with Somalis, the United Nations family is focused on the future &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[1161,1166,1162,1165,1164,363,1163],"class_list":["post-6710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-press-releases","tag-14-oct-blast","tag-deadly-mogadishu-attack","tag-hird-anniversary","tag-ieds","tag-survivors","tag-un-in-somalia","tag-victims"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710","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=6710"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6723,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6710\/revisions\/6723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}