{"id":52874,"date":"2013-02-13T00:24:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T00:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=52874"},"modified":"2013-02-13T00:24:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T00:24:37","slug":"somali-firefighters-to-resume-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=52874","title":{"rendered":"Somali firefighters to resume operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Mogadishu&#8217;s fire department is resuming operations for the first time since 1991 when civil war broke out in Somalia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Firefighters in the capital have recently completed an intensive training course organised by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many basic public services like firefighting, healthcare and sanitation were neglected by extremist group al-Shabaab who controlled parts of the capital and country until the Somali National Army drove them out with the support of AMISOM.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/59143012\" height=\"275\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/59143012\">SOMALIA &#8211; FIREFIGHTERS<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/auunistnews\">AU\/UN IST News<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>AU\/UN Information Support Team<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mogadishu&#8217;s fire department is resuming operations for the first time since 1991 when civil war broke out in Somalia. Firefighters in the capital have recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":52876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,751],"tags":[8031],"class_list":["post-52874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-global-news","tag-mogadishu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}