{"id":437308,"date":"2025-03-03T11:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=437308"},"modified":"2025-03-03T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:51:59","slug":"somali-ground-troops-commander-and-hirshabelle-vice-president-visit-frontlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/somali-ground-troops-commander-and-hirshabelle-vice-president-visit-frontlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali Ground Troops Commander and Hirshabelle Vice President visit frontlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 The Somali National Army (SNA) Ground Forces Commander General Sahal Abdullahi Omar, alongside Hirshabelle Vice President Yusuf Ahmed Hagar and other senior officials, visited frontline troops in Xalfooleey, a strategic area on the border between the Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle regions.<\/p>\n

The delegation met with hundreds of local fighters from the \u201cXaq u Dirir\u201d (Justice Defenders) militia, a community-based force actively engaged in the battle against Al-Shabaab militants. General Sahal praised their efforts in securing their homeland and reaffirmed the government\u2019s commitment to doubling its support for local defense forces fighting alongside the national army.<\/p>\n

Hirshabelle Vice President Yusuf Ahmed Hagar echoed these sentiments, emphasizing his administration\u2019s determination to eradicate Al-Shabaab from all territories under its jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery war can end in negotiation, but with these terrorists, our only option is to eliminate them from our country,\u201d Hagar stated.<\/p>\n

The visit comes as government forces, backed by local militias, intensify military operations to push Al-Shabaab out of central Somalia.<\/p>\n

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Mogadishu, (SONNA) \u2013 The Somali National Army (SNA) Ground Forces Commander General Sahal Abdullahi Omar, alongside Hirshabelle Vice President Yusuf Ahmed Hagar and other senior officials, visited frontline troops in Xalfooleey, a strategic area on the border between the Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle regions. The delegation met with hundreds of local fighters from the \u201cXaq […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":437310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437312,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437308\/revisions\/437312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}