{"id":30754,"date":"2019-01-27T06:23:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T06:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30754"},"modified":"2019-01-27T06:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T06:23:33","slug":"kenya-fear-of-attacks-by-al-shabab-hits-tourism-on-lamu-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30754","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Fear of attacks by al-Shabab hits tourism on Lamu Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"61\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/kenya.html\">Kenya<\/a>&#8216;s serene beaches and tropical climate have long been a magnet for tourists, especially from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/regions\/europe.html\">Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But attacks and kidnappings by the armed group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/al-shabab.html\">al-Shabab<\/a> in recent years have scared the visitors away.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Mohammed Adow reports from Lamu Island about the effect on people whose lives depend on holidaymakers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s serene beaches and tropical climate have long been a magnet for tourists, especially from Europe. But attacks and kidnappings by the armed group al-Shabab in recent years have scared the visitors away. Al Jazeera&#8217;s Mohammed Adow reports from Lamu Island about the effect on people whose lives depend on holidaymakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}