{"id":58017,"date":"2020-01-10T10:10:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58017"},"modified":"2020-01-10T10:10:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T02:10:24","slug":"un-warns-of-devastating-surge-of-attacks-in-sahel-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58017","title":{"rendered":"UN warns of &#8216;devastating surge&#8217; of attacks in Sahel region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/UN-warns-of-devastating-surge-of-attacks-in-Sahel-region-832735?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/399\/39906534.295.jpg\" alt=\"The military campaign against attacks started more than six years ago\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>The military campaign against attacks started more than six years ago<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, Jan 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Sahel region has experienced &#8220;a devastating surge in terrorist attacks against civilian and military targets&#8221; in recent months according to the region&#8217;s United Nations envoy.<br><br>Mohamed Ibn Chambas made the comments when he was speaking to the UN Security Council.<br><br>He said that the &#8220;unprecedented terrorist violence&#8221; had shaken public confidence in the region.<br><br>He said attacks have increased five-fold in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger since 2016.<br><br>More than 4,000 deaths were reported in 2019 compared with an estimated 770 deaths three years before. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The military campaign against attacks started more than six years ago UNITED NATIONS, Jan 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Sahel region has experienced &#8220;a devastating surge in terrorist attacks against civilian and military targets&#8221; in recent months according to the region&#8217;s United Nations envoy. Mohamed Ibn Chambas made the comments when he was speaking to the [&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\/58017"}],"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=58017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}