{"id":58342,"date":"2020-01-13T09:54:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T01:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58342"},"modified":"2020-01-13T09:55:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T01:55:55","slug":"five-killed-by-jihadists-in-northeast-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58342","title":{"rendered":"Five killed by militants in northeast Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Untitled-1-2.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Untitled-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KANO (Nigeria), Jan 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Militants linked with the Daesh group killed five members of a militia in an offensive in Nigeria\u2019s northeastern Borno state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fighters from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) \u2014 travelling in<br>pickup trucks fitted with machine guns \u2014 attacked Gajiram town, 80<br>kilometres from the state capital Maiduguri, on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They targeted hunters and vigilantes who were guarding the town against<br>attacks, resident Mele Butari said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe lost five men in the attack,\u201d militia leader Babakura Kolo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The five men were buried in Maiduguri on Saturday, another militia member Ibrahim Liman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nganzai district, where Gajiram is located, has been repeatedly attacked<br>by militants in recent months, with troops and residents targeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past two months, the number of ambushes against troops and civilian abductions at fake highway checkpoints by ISWAP \u2014 which split from the Boko Haram militant group in 2016 \u2014 has increased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spike in attacks followed the creation of \u201csuper camps\u201d by the<br>Nigerian military in the northeast to stave off repeated raids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities in the state recruited hundreds of hunters and vigilantes to<br>fill the void left by the withdrawal of troops from small camps, but they<br>have been exposed to incessant attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decade-long conflict has killed 36,000 people and displaced around two<br>million from their homes in northeast Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The violence has spread to neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon,<br>prompting a regional military coalition to fight the insurgents. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANO (Nigeria), Jan 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Militants linked with the Daesh group killed five members of a militia in an offensive in Nigeria\u2019s northeastern Borno state. Fighters from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) \u2014 travelling inpickup trucks fitted with machine guns \u2014 attacked Gajiram town, 80kilometres from the state capital Maiduguri, on Friday. They [&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\/58342"}],"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=58342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}