{"id":323504,"date":"2026-01-30T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323504"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:25:18","slug":"niger-20-killed-11-arrested-in-attack-on-niamey-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323504","title":{"rendered":"Niger: 20 killed, 11 arrested in attack on Niamey airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NIAMEY, Jan 30 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Niger&#8217;s Defense and Security Forces (FDS) on Thursday neutralized at least 20 mercenaries and arrested 11 others in response to an attack on Niamey&#8217;s Diori Hamani International Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an announcement, Niger&#8217;s Ministry of National Defense said the FDS also recovered a significant cache of war materials and several motorcycles used by the attackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the ministry, the attack occurred on the night from Wednesday to Thursday, when a group of mercenaries, on a remotely directed mission, targeted Air Base 101, near the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The attackers, traveling on motorcycles with their headlights off, were repelled after a 30-minute assault, it said, adding that most of the arrestees were seriously wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the attack was thwarted, &#8220;four soldiers were wounded and equipment was damaged, including a stockpile of ammunition that caught fire,&#8221; said the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before fleeing, the mercenaries also fired at three civilian aircraft, including two belonging to the airline Asky.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIAMEY, Jan 30 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; Niger&#8217;s Defense and Security Forces (FDS) on Thursday neutralized at least 20 mercenaries and arrested 11 others in response to an attack on Niamey&#8217;s Diori Hamani International Airport. In an announcement, Niger&#8217;s Ministry of National Defense said the FDS also recovered a significant cache of war materials and several motorcycles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323504"}],"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=323504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323511,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323504\/revisions\/323511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}