{"id":10128,"date":"2018-12-05T04:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T04:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/us-reopens-diplomatic-mission-in-somalia-after-28-year-closure\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T10:36:47","slug":"us-establishes-diplomatic-presence-in-somalia-after-28-year-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/us-establishes-diplomatic-presence-in-somalia-after-28-year-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"US Establishes Diplomatic Presence In Somalia after 28-year Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major step\u00a0forward in the USA&#8217;s African Foreign policy, they have re-established their embassy in Mogadishu. This was closed in 1991 when fierce fighting caused them to airlift the staff, and a subsequent attempt at intervention\u00a0in <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)\">1993<\/a><\/span> didn&#8217;t go as planned. Thus for the preceding\u00a025 years, the US has steered clear of the country.<\/p>\n<p>This was the logical follow on\u00a0from them recognising the Federal Government of Somalia in 2013 and the US seems intent on helping support the Government in their strife with\u00a0al-Shabab, given that the country is largely unaffected by the planned reduction in <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/us-plans-to-cut-military-support-in-africa\/\">American troops<\/a><\/span> in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major step\u00a0forward in the USA&#8217;s African Foreign policy, they have re-established their embassy in Mogadishu. This was closed in 1991 when fierce fighting caused them to airlift the staff, and a subsequent attempt at intervention\u00a0in 1993 didn&#8217;t go as planned. Thus for the preceding\u00a025 years, the US has steered clear of the country&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[201,303,302,304],"class_list":["post-10128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-africa","tag-mogadishu","tag-somalia","tag-us-foreign-policy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10128"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10174,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions\/10174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}