{"id":52016,"date":"2014-09-29T11:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T11:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=52016"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T11:31:24","slug":"somalis-feeling-safer-in-mogadishu-survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=52016","title":{"rendered":"Somalis &#8216;feeling safer&#8217; in Mogadishu, survey says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, are feeling safer and more optimistic than they were a year ago, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Institute of Policy Studies, which analysed data collected from more than 1,600 residents, said people reported a decline in violence.<\/p>\n<p>However, serious concerns remain, such as attacks by Islamist group al-Shabab, and mistrust of the security services.<\/p>\n<p>Somalia has been ravaged by conflict for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Somalis have been returning from abroad to help rebuild the country as security has improved in recent years.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Soldiers of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) secure an area near a prison in Mogadishu on 31 August 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/77454000\/jpg\/_77454560_77454554.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The AU has some 22,000 troops battling al-Shabab militants in Somalia<\/div>\n<p>Al-Shabab was forced out of Mogadishu in 2011 but still stages frequent attacks in the city and controls many rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>In February, its fighters stormed Villa Somalia, a large complex which houses the presidential palace and other government institutions, killing 11 people.<\/p>\n<p>The African Union has some 22,000 troops in Somalia, in support of the UN-backed government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, are feeling safer and more optimistic than they were a year ago, according to a new survey. The Heritage Institute of Policy Studies, which analysed data collected from more than 1,600 residents, said people reported a decline in violence. However, serious concerns remain, such as attacks by Islamist group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":52025,"comment_status":"closed","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-52016","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\/52016","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}