{"id":8332,"date":"2014-04-23T08:09:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=8332"},"modified":"2014-04-23T09:59:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T13:59:30","slug":"kenya-gunmen-seize-un-vehicle-in-dadaab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/8332","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gunmen seize UN vehicle in Dadaab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nissan-patrol-members-of-the-military-liaison-office-of-the-un-mission-for-the-referendum-in-western-sahara-attempt-to-push-their-car-out-of-the-sand-in-oum-dreyga-photo-376451-s-1280x782.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8333 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nissan-patrol-members-of-the-military-liaison-office-of-the-un-mission-for-the-referendum-in-western-sahara-attempt-to-push-their-car-out-of-the-sand-in-oum-dreyga-photo-376451-s-1280x782-300x183.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nissan-patrol-members-of-the-military-liaison-office-of-the-un-mission-for-the-referendum-in-western-sahara-attempt-to-push-their-car-out-of-the-sand-in-oum-dreyga-photo-376451-s-1280x782-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nissan-patrol-members-of-the-military-liaison-office-of-the-un-mission-for-the-referendum-in-western-sahara-attempt-to-push-their-car-out-of-the-sand-in-oum-dreyga-photo-376451-s-1280x782-220x134.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/nissan-patrol-members-of-the-military-liaison-office-of-the-un-mission-for-the-referendum-in-western-sahara-attempt-to-push-their-car-out-of-the-sand-in-oum-dreyga-photo-376451-s-1280x782.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Three unidentified gunmen attacked and made away with a United Nations vehicle from the Hagadera refugee camp, south-eastern Somalia, on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Fafi District Commissioner, Geoffrey Taragon, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mangalorean.com\/news.php?newstype=local&amp;newsid=475907\">press<\/a> that the driver of the Nissan patrol vehicle was shot during the hijacking, which occurred at about 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Commentators on social media have noted that there were other passengers in the car.<\/p>\n<p>However, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Deputy Director to Kenya, Abel Mbilinyi, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africareview.com\/News\/UN-agency-vehicle-hijacked-in-Kenya\/-\/979180\/2290132\/-\/hf6hmiz\/-\/index.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">revealed<\/a> that &#8220;no one is missing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He further disclosed that the injured driver has been flown to Nairobi for medical care and that the vehicle has been recovered &#8220;about 40 kilometres from the place of the attack,&#8221; reportedly in Somali territory.<\/p>\n<p>Although al Shabab is yet to claim responsibility for the attack, various commentators have pointed accusing fingers at the group.<\/p>\n<p>Recently the Islamic extremists have increased the rate of their attacks and have sought high profile targets.<\/p>\n<p>The federal parliament has, meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligencebriefs.com\/somalia-intelligence-nisa-blamed-for-surge-in-al-shabaab-activity\/\">condemned<\/a> the national intelligence agency for failing to prevent the assassination of two legislators earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Photo\/Sahara Question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three unidentified gunmen attacked and made away with a United Nations vehicle from the Hagadera refugee camp, south-eastern Somalia, on Wednesday morning. Fafi District Commissioner, Geoffrey Taragon, told the press that the driver of the Nissan patrol vehicle was shot<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/8332\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[2621,54,2618,2620,2619,4966,1010],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332"}],"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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}