{"id":24221,"date":"2016-03-29T02:07:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T02:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/somali-forces-kill-more-than-100-al-shabab\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T02:07:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T02:07:13","slug":"somali-forces-kill-more-than-100-al-shabab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/somali-forces-kill-more-than-100-al-shabab\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali forces kill &#8216;more than 100&#8217; al-Shabab fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{At least 115 fighters of the militant Islamist group al-Shabab have been killed in heavy fighting with pro-government forces in northern Somalia, the regional government says.}<\/p>\n<p>A further 110 militants were captured during the fighting, the Galmudug government added in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no independent confirmation of the claims.<\/p>\n<p>The al-Qaeda-linked militants have drifted north after losing ground in southern and central Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Galmudug&#8217;s President Abdikarim Hussein Galaud said the security forces were determined to &#8220;wipe out&#8221; the militants, and to prevent them from establishing bases in stable parts of the north.<\/p>\n<p>The militants were defeated after four days of fighting along Galmudug&#8217;s border with Puntland, the government statement said.<\/p>\n<p>A few of them managed to flee into rural areas, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The statement did not give casualty figures for pro-government forces.<\/p>\n<p>The African Union (AU) has some 22,000 troops battling al-Shabab in southern Somalia, where it was formed nearly a decade ago to fight for Islamic rule.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the militants overran an AU base in the southern town of el-Ade.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia&#8217;s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said about 180 Kenyan troops, which were part of the AU force, were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11231 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_88970946_88970945.jpg\" alt=\"Al-Shabab has been trying to gain a foothold in northern Somalia\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{At least 115 fighters of the militant Islamist group al-Shabab have been killed in heavy fighting with pro-government forces in northern Somalia, the regional government says.} A further 110 militants were captured during the fighting, the Galmudug government added in a statement. There has been no independent confirmation of the claims. The al-Qaeda-linked militants have [&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":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","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":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","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":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24221","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=24221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24221"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24221"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}