{"id":44389,"date":"2015-03-09T17:15:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44389"},"modified":"2015-03-09T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:15:47","slug":"200-vehicles-enter-nigeria-to-fight-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/09\/200-vehicles-enter-nigeria-to-fight-boko-haram\/","title":{"rendered":"200 vehicles enter Nigeria to fight Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10919\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Boko-Haram.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10919 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Boko-Haram.jpg\" alt=\"Boko Haram. Twitter file photo\" width=\"498\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Boko-Haram.jpg 498w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Boko-Haram-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boko Haram members (screenshot from YouTube clip)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NIAMEY, Niger \u2014 A resident in a Niger village says that 200 vehicles with soldiers from Chad and Niger have been seen crossing the border into Nigeria to fight Islamic extremists there.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Boukarna, a resident of Bosso which in Niger across Nigeria&#8217;s northeast border, said Monday that vehicles have been crossing since Saturday. He said after they all crossed into Nigeria loud detonations could be heard, signaling fighting against Boko Haram members.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s neighbors are forming a multinational army to confront Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>Niger&#8217;s government has not publicly confirmed this ground assault. The Chadian military spokesman also declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram&#8217;s Islamic uprising has killed about 12,000 people in the nearly 6-year-old Islamic uprising in northeastern Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIAMEY, Niger \u2014 A resident in a Niger village says that 200 vehicles with soldiers from Chad and Niger have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","mauthors-dalatou-mamane","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}