{"id":55901,"date":"2019-12-22T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T06:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55901"},"modified":"2019-12-22T14:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T06:58:40","slug":"macron-voices-determination-to-fight-daesh-extremism-in-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55901","title":{"rendered":"Macron Voices Determination To Fight Daesh Extremism In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PARIS, Dec 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; French President, Emmanuel Macron, voiced his determination to fight Daesh extremism in West Africa, after French forces killed 33 Daesh militants in Mali, earlier in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We must remain determined and united to face that threat,&#8221; Macron, who was on the second day of his three-day trip to West Africa, said, in a news conference in Cote d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s main city of Abidjan. &#8220;We will continue the fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French troops carried out the operation by using attack helicopters, ground troops and a drone in the Mopti region of central Mali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2015, some 4,500 French troops have been sent to West Africa&#8217;s Sahel region, to help combat extremist fighters and restore security in the area.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS, Dec 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; French President, Emmanuel Macron, voiced his determination to fight Daesh extremism in West Africa, after French forces killed 33 Daesh militants in Mali, earlier in the day. &#8220;We must remain determined and united to face that threat,&#8221; Macron, who was on the second day of his three-day trip to West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":55904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55901"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}