{"id":951,"date":"2015-02-20T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2015-02-20T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:26:12","slug":"suicide-attack-targets-somali-officials-in-hotel-kills-at-least-25-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/02\/20\/suicide-attack-targets-somali-officials-in-hotel-kills-at-least-25-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide attack targets Somali officials in hotel, kills at least 25 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamist rebels detonated a car bomb at the entrance of a hotel in the Somali capital on Friday and then stormed inside where politicians had gathered, killing at least 25 people including a lawmaker and lightly wounding two ministers.<\/p>\n<p>The suicide attack targeted the Central Hotel around midday on Friday, typically a busy time for hotels as it is the Somali weekend. Ambulances wailed as they raced to the scene where a huge plume of smoke rose above the Indian Ocean coastal city\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Al Shabaab once ruled much of Somalia but it has been slowly pushed out of strongholds across the country. However, its guerrilla-style gun assaults and suicide bombings continue to exert pressure on the government to improve security.<\/p>\n<p>A military campaign launched by African Union peacekeeping forces and the Somali government forces last year ousted al Shabaab from Mogadishu in 2011 and from major coastal towns.<\/p>\n<p>But persistent guerrilla-style attacks in Mogadishu, while less frequent, have complicated the government&#8217;s efforts to secure the nation for a referendum on a new federal constitution and a presidential election during 2016.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamist rebels detonated a car bomb at the entrance of a hotel in the Somali capital on Friday and then stormed inside where politicians had gathered, killing at least 25 people including a lawmaker and lightly wounding two ministers. The suicide attack targeted the Central Hotel around midday on Friday, typically a busy time for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,294],"tags":[142,346,347,348,349],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","category-anti-terror-alert","tag-attack","tag-hotel","tag-kills","tag-somali","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}