{"id":77640,"date":"2014-12-27T19:03:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=77640"},"modified":"2014-12-27T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T19:03:06","slug":"top-al-shabab-militant-surrenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=77640","title":{"rendered":"Top al-Shabab militant &#8216;surrenders&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"top-story-header \">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;rGQS0DBDKXHF1F4CrEDB0XEKkowJN7np&#8221;]A top al-Shabab militant, Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi, has given himself up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"top-story-header \">Mr Hersi,\u00a0a leading figure in the militant group&#8217;s intelligence wing, is said to have surrendered to police in the Gedo region.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2012, the US state department offered $3m (\u00a31.9m, 2.5m euros) for information leading to his capture.<\/p>\n<p>His decision to surrender comes months after Al-Shabab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed in a US air strike.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggested Mr Hersi may have surrendered because of a dispute with al-Shabab members loyal to the former leader.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC, Mr Hersi fell out with Godane last year and has been on the run ever since but he is still a powerful figure\/<\/p>\n<p>Police stormed a house Mr Hersi had been hiding in for six days, close to the border with Kenya, after receiving a tip off, the district commissioner of the town of El Wag told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>He said that although Mr Hersi had a pistol, he did not put up a fight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/79951000\/jpg\/_79951411_025214361-1.jpg\" alt=\"Suspected Al-Shabab militants captured during an attack on African Union base are seen in Mogadishu, Somalia, on 25 December 2014\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption full-width\">Suspected al-Shabab militants were captured after an attack on an AU base in Mogadishu on Thursday<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Al-Shabab leader Zakariya Ismail surrendered to government forces in El Wag, Gedo region. He is expected to be flown to Mogadishu tomorrow,&#8221; an unnamed official told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no immediate comment from al-Shabab.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;rGQS0DBDKXHF1F4CrEDB0XEKkowJN7np&#8221;]A top al-Shabab militant, Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi, has given himself up. Mr Hersi,\u00a0a leading figure in the militant group&#8217;s intelligence wing, is said to have surrendered to police in the Gedo region. In June 2012, the US state department offered $3m (\u00a31.9m, 2.5m euros) for information leading to his capture. His decision to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":77647,"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":[2],"tags":[38,14],"class_list":["post-77640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77640","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=77640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}