{"id":32119,"date":"2017-01-27T01:03:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T01:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kdf-camp-in-kulbiyow-comes-under-al-shabaab\/"},"modified":"2017-01-27T01:03:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T01:03:42","slug":"kdf-camp-in-kulbiyow-comes-under-al-shabaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kdf-camp-in-kulbiyow-comes-under-al-shabaab\/","title":{"rendered":"KDF camp in Kulbiyow comes under Al-Shabaab attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Suspected Al-Shabaab militants have attacked a Kenyan military camp in Kulbiyow, Somalia.}<\/p>\n<p>The KDF base was attacked on Friday morning and the number of casualties remains unconfirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are under massive attack and there is massive exchange of fire,&#8221; Military Spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Njuguna told Nation.co.ke<\/p>\n<p>Although the military spokesman didn\u2019t offer finer details on the exchange, he said the Kenyan troops have been pinned down.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Shabaab, in Twitter posts, claimed it had killed dozens of Kenyan soldiers but the Nation could independently verify the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The militant group has an elaborate propaganda machinery, complete with a spokesman, that fights to advance it war against the Mogadishu administration and its allies, including Kenya.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17834 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pix-15.jpg\" alt=\"A Kenyan military camp in Kulbiyow, Somalia came under heavy fire on January 27, 2017 after suspected Al shabaab militants attacked the base. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Suspected Al-Shabaab militants have attacked a Kenyan military camp in Kulbiyow, Somalia.} The KDF base was attacked on Friday morning and the number of casualties remains unconfirmed. &#8220;We are under massive attack and there is massive exchange of fire,&#8221; Military Spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Njuguna told Nation.co.ke Although the military spokesman didn\u2019t offer finer details on [&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":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","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\/32119","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=32119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32119"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32119"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}