{"id":1379,"date":"2015-03-08T16:40:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2015-03-08T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:40:25","slug":"chad-and-niger-forces-launch-attacks-against-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/chad-and-niger-forces-launch-attacks-against-boko-haram\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad and Niger forces launch attacks against Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Nigerien and Chadian military forces\u00a0have launched a joint &#8220;ground and air&#8221; offensive against Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, a Niger government source says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;An offensive is underway against Boko Haram&#8230;. Very early this morning, the troops from Niger and Chad began an offensive against Boko Haram&#8230; in the area of Bosso and near to Diram,&#8221;\u00a0AFP quoted the unnamed source as saying\u00a0on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The military operation comes following African Union (AU)&#8217;s Friday decision to\u00a0establish\u00a0a regional force of up to 10,000 men to battle the Takfiri militant group\u00a0which has pledged allegiance to the terrorist\u00a0ISIL.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The force is to be based in Chad&#8217;s capital, N&#8217;Djamena, said the pan-African bloc&#8217;s Peace and Security Council. The idea for creating the force was adopted at an AU summit in January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The mandate of the military force will be &#8220;to prevent the spread of Boko Haram activities and other terrorist groups&#8221; and &#8220;eradicate their presence,&#8221; according to an agreement reached in an AU meeting earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Boko Haram, whose name means \u201cWestern education is forbidden,\u201d controls parts of northeastern Nigeria and says its goal is to overthrow the Nigerian government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly shooting attacks and bombings in various parts of Nigeria since the beginning of its activities in 2009, which have left over 13,000 people dead and 1.5 million displaced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Boko Haram has also conducted military operations in Nigeria\u2019s neighboring countries Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MFB\/KA\/SS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerien and Chadian military forces\u00a0have launched a joint &#8220;ground and air&#8221; offensive against Boko Haram in northeastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[355,103,132,15,156,11],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","tag-africa","tag-boko-haram","tag-chad","tag-militants","tag-niger","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Chadian-Troops.jpg?fit=620%2C367&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}