{"id":14648,"date":"2014-05-27T12:27:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/somalia-declares-new-war-on-al-shabaab\/"},"modified":"2014-05-27T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T12:24:50","slug":"somalia-declares-new-war-on-al-shabaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/somalia-declares-new-war-on-al-shabaab\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia Declares New War on al-Shabaab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed has declared \u2018all-out war\u2019 on al-Shabaab as AMISOM warned of more attacks by the al Qaeda-linked group in the country.}}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI order the Somali National Army to \u2018move now\u2019 to eliminate the enemy wherever they are in the country. We must eradicate this enemy from our country,\u201d Abdiweli said at a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot tolerate that the enemy carries out such attacks on our people \u2014 we must all take part in the war,\u201d the prime minister emphasized, urging the Somali people to help the army eliminate what he termed as the invading \u2018enemy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Abdirahman Mahamed Turyare, the Somali High Military Court chairman, yesterday said every al Shabaab member will receive the death penalty and be shot dead when seized without postponement.<\/p>\n<p>Turyare, who was appointed as the court\u2019s chairman last week, said: \u201cAl-Shabaab will not be released if seized. The Somali High Military Court will instantly sentence them to death. I request the security department to inform the court if they seize al-Shabaab members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl-Shabaab is an enemy and will be punished. I am informing al-Shabaab that they will meet the consequence of their acts if they fail to surrender,\u201d he announced.<\/p>\n<p>Turyare\u2019s declaration came amidst further terrorist attacks. AMISOM spokesperson Ali Adan Xumad warned that the terrorist group was planning more attacks on key government installations.<\/p>\n<p>Ten people were killed when al-Shabaab attacked Somalia\u2019s Parliament where over 100 MPs were attending a session on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed has declared \u2018all-out war\u2019 on al-Shabaab as AMISOM warned of more attacks by the al Qaeda-linked group in the country.}} \u201cI order the Somali National Army to \u2018move now\u2019 to eliminate the enemy wherever they are in the country. We must eradicate this enemy from our country,\u201d Abdiweli said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000052390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-14648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000052390,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14648.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14648.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14648.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14648.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14648.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14648.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000052390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=14648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}