{"id":88183,"date":"2020-01-07T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T10:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12764"},"modified":"2020-01-07T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T10:45:58","slug":"al-shabaab-attacks-us-kenya-military-base-in-lamu-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/al-shabaab-attacks-us-kenya-military-base-in-lamu-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shabaab attacks US-Kenya military base in Lamu Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently, Al-Shabaab has attacked a military base used by the United States of America(USA) and Kenyan forces in Kenya\u2019s coastal Lamu region.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Lamu Region:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lamu Island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.It is situated in the Indian Ocean in the East of Kenya.<\/li><li>Lamu was a trading post for the sultanate of Oman and was once one of the most important locations in East Africa for the slave, ivory and gold trades.\u00a0<\/li><li>Currently,it is one of the longest established and best preserved remaining settlements of the Swahili tradition.The name Swahili is derived from Arabic word which means coasts.<\/li><li>The region is built on coral stone and mangrove timber and is characterized by structural forms such as inner courtyards, verandas and elaborately carved wooden doors.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/3V5LiCbjlVwurlcq_6k2m5s4bDdf4r8oQXrxTU9644arfqSKd7DEd4-dg-wb6ucfvB2FDuFPm8B1CkLhNcn9lWwu6GMo9LiyztE9PdUe4Ct_BqOCJbYUfuobVI6mmrTlZWRvsSjn\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About<\/strong> <strong>Al-Shabab:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Al-Shabab means The Youth in Arabic.It emerged as the radical youth wing of Somalia&#8217;s now-defunct Union of Islamic Courts.<\/li><li>It advocates the Saudi-inspired Wahhabi version of Islam while most Somalis are Sufis.<\/li><li>It has imposed a strict version of Sharia in areas under its control, including stoning to death women accused of adultery and amputating the hands of thieves.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently, Al-Shabaab has attacked a military base used by the United States of America(USA) and Kenyan forces in Kenya\u2019s coastal Lamu region. Facts: About Lamu Region: Lamu Island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.It is situated in the Indian Ocean in the East of Kenya. Lamu was a trading post for the sultanate of Oman&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/al-shabaab-attacks-us-kenya-military-base-in-lamu-region\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Al-Shabaab attacks US-Kenya military base in Lamu Region<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[5877,5878],"class_list":["post-88183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-al-shabab","tag-lemu-region","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704460960},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}