{"id":23571,"date":"2016-02-29T00:38:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T00:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uhuru-wants-more-troops-in-somalia\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T00:38:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T00:38:30","slug":"uhuru-wants-more-troops-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uhuru-wants-more-troops-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Uhuru wants more troops in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{President Uhuru Kenyatta has asked African countries to deploy more troops to Somalia to cushion Kenya Defence Forces from vicious Al -Shabaab attacks.}<\/p>\n<p>The President said Kenyan troops had been exposed by failure to deploy more Amisom troops to Gedo region, which he described as a perfect ground for the terrorist group to attack KDF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf particular concern to us in Kenya is the curious absence of Amisom in the Gedo region. This region has now become a safe haven for Al-Shabaab and a launching pad for attacks against our troops and people along our common border with Somalia.  It has become a critical soft belly for Kenya,\u201d he told the Heads of State Summit for Amisom police\/troops contributing countries taking place in Djibouti .<\/p>\n<p>Currently Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti and Ethiopia have their forces under Amisom in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya suffered its worst attack by Al Shabaab when the terrorist group launched a dawn attack on KDF base in El Adde in southern Somalia in January.<\/p>\n<p>KDF is yet to make public the number of soldiers killed or injured in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>(Read: Kenyan troops change bases in Somalia).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10668 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/tro_pic.jpg\" alt=\"A Kenya Defence Forces, under Africa Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom), soldier takes position during a patrol at Afmadow town on November 22, 2015. Currently Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Djibouti and Ethiopia have their forces under Amisom.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Uhuru Kenyatta has asked African countries to deploy more troops to Somalia to cushion Kenya Defence Forces from vicious Al -Shabaab attacks.} The President said Kenyan troops had been exposed by failure to deploy more Amisom troops to Gedo region, which he described as a perfect ground for the terrorist group to attack KDF. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23571","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23571"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23571"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}