{"id":3968,"date":"2013-08-12T18:44:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T18:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2013-10-11T01:19:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T05:19:29","slug":"kenya-denies-taking-sides-in-kismayo-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/3968","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Denies Taking Sides in Kismayo Clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kenyan-troops-in-Somalia.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" alt=\"Kenyan troops in Somalia\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kenyan-troops-in-Somalia.jpeg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kenyan-troops-in-Somalia.jpeg 620w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kenyan-troops-in-Somalia-300x159.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kenyan-troops-in-Somalia-220x117.jpeg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>Kenya\u2019s former defence minister, Yusuf Haji, has denied allegations that Kenyan troops took sides part in recent clan clashes in Kismayo city of Somalia. <\/p>\n<p> He said that the troops entered Somalia as part of the AMISOM peace keeping forces and had not been involved in clan violence. <\/p>\n<p>Kenya, he added, was focussing on fighting against Al-Shabab militants and preventing them from attacking civilians. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sent the troops to aid the federal government in crushing out Al-Shabaab and not to side with fighting clans; the Kenyan government is ready to help the federal government in every possible way,&#8221; Haji said.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights Activists and Somali leaders have alleged that Kenyan peacekeepers sided with the Raskambini clan and aided its fight against enemy clans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s former defence minister, Yusuf Haji, has denied allegations that Kenyan troops took sides part in recent clan clashes in Kismayo city of Somalia. He said that the troops entered Somalia as part of the AMISOM peace keeping forces and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/3968\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[42],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}