{"id":5060,"date":"2017-02-07T15:03:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2017-02-07T15:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T15:03:53","slug":"three-burundi-peacekeepers-in-somalia-injured-in-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/three-burundi-peacekeepers-in-somalia-injured-in-ambush\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Burundi peacekeepers in Somalia injured in ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4120\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4120\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4120\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AMISOM-contingent-burundais-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Burundi peacekeeping mission convoy ambushed in Somalia \" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AMISOM-contingent-burundais-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AMISOM-contingent-burundais-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AMISOM-contingent-burundais.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AMISOM-contingent-burundais-600x403.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burundi peacekeeping mission convoy ambushed in Somalia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Colonel Gaspard Baratuza, Burundi Army spokesperson, says the Islamist group \u201cEl-Shaabab\u201d has ambushed the Burundian peacekeeping troops\u2019 convoy in Somalia, this 7 February in the afternoon. He also says three Burundian peacekeeping troops have been seriously injured and evacuated to hospital for treatment. \u201cOthers have been immediately treated on the spot\u201d, he says. But sources in Somalia say the ambush has killed two troops and 12 others have been injured, among them four seriously wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Burundi first contributed to the war against Islamic Militancy in Somalia by providing 850 soldiers in 2008 and is currently providing over 5,000 troops to fight for the African Union\u2019s Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonel Gaspard Baratuza, Burundi Army spokesperson, says the Islamist group \u201cEl-Shaabab\u201d has ambushed the Burundian peacekeeping troops\u2019 convoy in Somalia, this 7 February in the afternoon. He also says three Burundian peacekeeping troops have been seriously injured and evacuated to hospital for treatment. \u201cOthers have been immediately treated on the spot\u201d, he says. But sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[995,996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5061,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions\/5061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}