{"id":710,"date":"2015-01-18T09:43:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T09:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=710"},"modified":"2015-01-18T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T11:24:42","slug":"chad-soldiers-and-tanks-arrive-in-cameroon-to-fight-militants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/chad-soldiers-and-tanks-arrive-in-cameroon-to-fight-militants\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad soldiers and tanks arrive in Cameroon to fight militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A convoy of about 400 Chadian tanks, with hundreds of Chadian troops, has arrived in\u00a0neighboring Cameroon to help fight Nigeria\u2019s Boko Haram militants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of residents in Cameroon&#8217;s border town of Kousseri welcomed the soldiers who were deployed to recapture the town of Baga, bordering Chad, Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Chadian President Idriss Deby had said in a speech, &#8220;Cameroon must not be left alone to face this threat that has so hurt innocent people in Cameroon and in Nigeria,&#8221; adding that \u201cWe cannot remain indifferent to what happens to our neighbors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The troops left Chad following the country\u2019s parliament vote for the deployment of armed forces to Cameroon and Nigeria to combat the terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon\u2019s President Paul Biya had announced on January 15 that neighboring Chad was going to send military forces to help Cameroonian forces fight the Boko Haram militants.<\/p>\n<p>On January 12, the Cameroonian army killed 143 Boko Haram militants as they mounted an offensive on a military camp in the northern town of Kolofata, located approximately 840 kilometers (521 miles) northeast of the capital, Yaounde.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon also launched airstrikes against Boko Haram on December 28, after nearly 1,000 militants from the group assaulted a military camp located near the northern border. The Cameroonian troops in the camp were forced to flee. However, the base was retaken later.<\/p>\n<p>Since last May, when President Biya declared war on Boko Haram, thousands of Cameroonian troops have been deployed to defend the Far North Region.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram, whose name means \u201cWestern education is forbidden,\u201d aims to overthrow the government in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>MIS\/NN\/AS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A convoy of about 400 Chadian tanks, with hundreds of Chadian troops, has arrived in\u00a0neighboring Cameroon to [&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":[355,103,133,132,15,11],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","tag-africa","tag-boko-haram","tag-cameroon","tag-chad","tag-militants","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-bs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/720"}],"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=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}