{"id":50454,"date":"2025-07-02T05:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/an-african-union-military-aircraft-crashes-in-somalias-capital\/02\/07\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T05:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:59:39","slug":"an-african-union-military-aircraft-crashes-in-somalias-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/an-african-union-military-aircraft-crashes-in-somalias-capital\/02\/07\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"An African Union military aircraft crashes in Somalia&#8217;s capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) \u2014 A small military aircraft serving the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia crashed Wednesday at the airport in the capital, Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The aircraft crashed and caught fire while landing at Aden Adde Airport, according to the Somali National News Agency. The agency said on the social platform X that the fire \u201chas been contained, and authorities are assessing the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There was no immediate comment from Somali authorities. The number of casualties was unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The African Union peacekeeping mission, known as AUSSOM, is helping Somali authorities to fight the extremist rebels of al-Shabab, which opposes the presence of foreign troops in the Horn of Africa nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The mission includes troops from countries such as Uganda and Kenya.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/african-union-military-aircraft-crashes-091710541.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) &mdash; A small military aircraft serving the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia crashed Wednesday at the airport in<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/an-african-union-military-aircraft-crashes-in-somalias-capital\/02\/07\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/cv\/apiv2\/social\/images\/yahoo_default_logo-1200x1200.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}