{"id":38810,"date":"2019-08-22T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T04:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=38810"},"modified":"2019-08-22T12:32:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T04:32:35","slug":"mali-suspected-militants-kill-five-troops-in-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=38810","title":{"rendered":"Mali: Suspected militants kill five troops in ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>BAMAKO, Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Suspected militants killed five Malian soldiers on Wednesday in an ambush in the West African country\u2019s volatile centre, the army said, the latest in a string of attacks targeting local security forces in the Sahel region.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement said the soldiers were travelling between the towns of Hombori and Boni, about 100 km north of the Burkina Faso border, when they fell into an ambush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It came days after gunmen killed 24 soldiers in an attack on an army unit in neighbouring Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFAMA (Malian armed forces) deplores the killing of five people, which also destroyed military equipment,\u201d the statement said. \u201cReinforcements have been sent back there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remote, grassy borderlands where Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger meet has become a haven for militants and criminal outfits linked to Daesh in the Greater Sahara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Militant groups linked to al Qaeda and Daesh have exploited ethnic rivalries in Mali and its neighbours to boost recruitment and render swathes of territory ungovernable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French forces intervened in Mali in 2013 to push back a militant advance from the desert north but the militants have since regrouped and expanded their presence. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAMAKO, Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Suspected militants killed five Malian soldiers on Wednesday in an ambush in the West African country\u2019s volatile centre, the army said, the latest in a string of attacks targeting local security forces in the Sahel region. The statement said the soldiers were travelling between the towns of Hombori and Boni, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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\/38810"}],"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=38810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}