{"id":118682,"date":"2021-04-15T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T02:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118682"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T02:03:05","slug":"nigerians-flee-to-niger-after-third-devastating-attack-in-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118682","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians flee to Niger after third devastating attack in northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Nigerians-flee-to-Niger-after-third-devastating-attack-in-northeast-1232740?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/483\/48367641.295.jpg\" alt=\"Damasak hit once again by Jihadists\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Damasak hit once again by Jihadists<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABUJA, April 15 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; Civilians are fleeing into the Niger Republic after gunmen attacked Damasak town, Borno state in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday &#8211; the third attack in a week and the second in 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attacks reportedly by dozens of jihadist fighters from the Islamic State in West Africa Province who have been launching sporadic offensives since last weekend.<br><br>Wednesday&#8217;s assault comes just days after the militants set ablaze several aid worker facilities in the same town including the United Nations humanitarian hub housing several international agencies.<br><br>The government is yet to confirm just how many people have died and been displaced by these last three attacks.<br><br>Due to increased insecurity in the area, humanitarian workers stationed in Nigeria are struggling to provide aid &#8212; as the number of people requiring urgent assistance is projected to rise to 8.7 million this year.<br><br>Nigeria&#8217;s 12-year-old conflict has left at least 36,000 people dead and forced around two million more to flee their homes. &#8212; NNN-AFRICANEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damasak hit once again by Jihadists ABUJA, April 15 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; Civilians are fleeing into the Niger Republic after gunmen attacked Damasak town, Borno state in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday &#8211; the third attack in a week and the second in 24 hours. The attacks reportedly by dozens of jihadist fighters from the Islamic State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}