{"id":74625,"date":"2014-12-16T18:41:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=74625"},"modified":"2014-12-16T18:41:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:41:23","slug":"kenya-fighting-terrorism-deregistering-510-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=74625","title":{"rendered":"Kenya fighting terrorism by deregistering 510 NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to clamp down on increasing terrorist activities, the Kenyan government has deregistered 510 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).<\/p>\n<p>The licenses of their foreign employees have been revoked while their bank accounts have also been frozen.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;lhTk2ifX1lnNKRSLOHx27dKiiun2uX9f&#8221;]According to the BBC, the 510 NGOs include 15 organizations suspected of having links with terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya in recent times has been battling with the activities of al-Shabab; an extremist, jihadist terrorist group based in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Several lives have been lost including that of Ghana\u2019s former chairman of the Council of State, Professor Kofi Awoonor, who was killed in the infamous Westgate Shopping attack in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya is currently considering a new security bill which will support its fight against terrorist activities.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the deregistering of the 510 NGOs is linked to the new security bill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to clamp down on increasing terrorist activities, the Kenyan government has deregistered 510 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). The licenses of their foreign employees have been revoked while their bank accounts have also been frozen. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;lhTk2ifX1lnNKRSLOHx27dKiiun2uX9f&#8221;]According to the BBC, the 510 NGOs include 15 organizations suspected of having links with terrorist groups. Kenya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":74626,"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-74625","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\/74625","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=74625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}