{"id":54637,"date":"2019-12-14T10:02:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54637"},"modified":"2019-12-14T10:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T02:02:17","slug":"president-pays-tribute-to-soldiers-after-dark-day-in-nigers-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=54637","title":{"rendered":"President pays tribute to soldiers after &#8216;dark day&#8217; in Niger&#8217;s history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldNews\/Tribute-to-soldiers-after-dark-day-in-Niger-s-history-814888?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/983\/98319518.295.jpg\" alt=\"Niger's army is struggling to contain the spread of armed groups\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Niger&#8217;s army is struggling to contain the spread of armed groups<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NIAMEY, Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The president of Niger has paid tribute to the 71 soldiers who were killed on Tuesday in the country&#8217;s worst ever jihadist attack.<br><br>At a military airbase in the capital Niamey, Mahamadou Issoufou described the incident as a &#8220;dark day&#8221; and a &#8220;terrible ordeal&#8221; for the army.<br><br>On the ground were rows of body bags &#8211; each one covered by Niger&#8217;s orange, white and green flag.<br><br>Many relatives of the dead soldiers attended the ceremony, which comes three days after jihadists linked to the Daesh group attacked a military camp near the border with Mali.<br><br>Over the past four months at least 230 soldiers from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have been killed in jihadist attacks. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niger&#8217;s army is struggling to contain the spread of armed groups NIAMEY, Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The president of Niger has paid tribute to the 71 soldiers who were killed on Tuesday in the country&#8217;s worst ever jihadist attack. At a military airbase in the capital Niamey, Mahamadou Issoufou described the incident as a &#8220;dark [&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\/54637"}],"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=54637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}