{"id":106424,"date":"2015-04-08T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T12:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=106424"},"modified":"2015-04-08T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T12:30:39","slug":"kenya-closes-down-13-somali-linked-money-transfer-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=106424","title":{"rendered":"Kenya closes down 13 Somali-linked money transfer firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>13 money transfer firms believed to be Somali- linked have been shut down by the Kenyan government.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;g8wy3xZOQicRIWgbU0jyYDoFCM005pRh&#8221;]Some 86 persons and organizations have also had their bank accounts closed<\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s Interior Minister is quoted by the BBC as explaining that the closure is to prevent Islamist militants from using the firms to finance terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/06\/kenya-bombs-somalia-al-shabab-bases\/#sthash.qOZDI6Ra.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Somalia al-Shabab bases were bombed<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by Kenyan fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>These are part of measures being undertaken by the Kenyan government to fight al-Shabab&#8217;s insurgency in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This follows an attack at the Garissa University last week Thursday which claimed 148 lives.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan President, <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/05\/kenya-president-vows-to-crush-al-shabab\/#sthash.g74utnNx.1FgimR7L.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>Uhuru Kenyatta has vowed<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>to do everything possible to crush the militants.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the\u00a0Kenyan government has placed a 20 million Kenyan shillings ($215,000) <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/06\/garissa-attack-215000-bounty-placed-on-ring-leader\/#sthash.vQnjijC1.nxQP8SxR.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>bounty on the ring leader<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of the group, Mohamed Mohamud who is suspected to have masterminded the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 money transfer firms believed to be Somali- linked have been shut down by the Kenyan government. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;g8wy3xZOQicRIWgbU0jyYDoFCM005pRh&#8221;]Some 86 persons and organizations have also had their bank accounts closed Kenya\u2019s Interior Minister is quoted by the BBC as explaining that the closure is to prevent Islamist militants from using the firms to finance terrorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":106425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-106424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}