{"id":24242,"date":"2016-03-30T01:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/somalia-bound-ship-of-weapons-seized-by-french\/"},"modified":"2016-03-30T01:47:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T01:47:04","slug":"somalia-bound-ship-of-weapons-seized-by-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/somalia-bound-ship-of-weapons-seized-by-french\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Somalia-bound&#8217; ship of weapons seized by French navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{French naval forces patrolling the northern Indian Ocean have seized a ship full of weapons they say was heading towards Somalia.}<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of assault rifles, machine guns and anti-tank weapons were found.<br \/>\nThey seized the weapons under a UN embargo to prevent arms from getting to Somali Islamist militants.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Australian navy intercepted a cache of arms on a fishing boat off Oman, also believed to be on its way to Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Monitoring&#8217;s Africa security correspondent Tomi Oladipo says the French helicopter that spotted the ship is part of the multinational Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) that patrols the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel was not registered to any country and the CMF did not reveal any further information about the people transporting the weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The multinational force, which was also set up to tackle piracy off the coast of Somalia, seized the weapons to prevent them from getting to the Islamist militant group, al-Shabab.<\/p>\n<p>UN sanctions authorise the interception of weapons heading for Somalia.<br \/>\nHowever, the UN allows the Somali government to buy light weapons for its fight against the insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>The al-Qaeda-linked militants frequently stage attacks in the capital, Mogadishu, and other cities, and still control many rural areas in southern Somalia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11250 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_88983378_provence.jpg\" alt=\"Once the helicopter spotted the suspect ship, this French navy vessel intercepted it\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{French naval forces patrolling the northern Indian Ocean have seized a ship full of weapons they say was heading towards Somalia.} Hundreds of assault rifles, machine guns and anti-tank weapons were found. They seized the weapons under a UN embargo to prevent arms from getting to Somali Islamist militants. Earlier this month, the Australian navy [&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-24242","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\/24242","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=24242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24242"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24242"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}