{"id":59613,"date":"2020-01-24T10:31:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59613"},"modified":"2020-01-24T10:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T02:31:48","slug":"malian-army-says-six-soldiers-killed-several-wounded-in-overnight-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59613","title":{"rendered":"Malian army says six soldiers killed, several wounded in overnight attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Malian-army-says-six-soldiers-killed-several-wounded-in-overnight-attack-846091?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/213\/21300554.295.jpg\" alt=\"File photo\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>BAMAKO, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Six soldiers were killed and several were wounded in an overnight attack in central Mali, the army said Thursday, in fresh violence in the war-torn West African state.<br><br>The troops came under fire late Wednesday from &#8220;unidentified armed men&#8221; in Dioungani, an area in central Mali&#8217;s volatile Mopti region near the border with Burkina Faso, the army said on Twitter.<br><br>Local authorities and inhabitants have blamed the attack on jihadists.<br><br>The army gave a &#8220;provisional toll&#8221; of six dead and several wounded, without giving further details.<br><br>Mali has been struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency that erupted in the north in 2012 and has claimed thousands of military and civilian lives since.<br><br>Despite some 4,500 French troops in the Sahel region, plus a 13,000-strong UN peacekeeping force in Mali, the conflict has engulfed the centre of the country and spread to neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.<br><br>Local Malian troops are frequently attacked. On Tuesday, two soldiers were killed in the Mopti region when their convoy hit a roadside bomb. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAMAKO, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Six soldiers were killed and several were wounded in an overnight attack in central Mali, the army said Thursday, in fresh violence in the war-torn West African state. The troops came under fire late Wednesday from &#8220;unidentified armed men&#8221; in Dioungani, an area in central Mali&#8217;s volatile Mopti region near [&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\/59613"}],"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=59613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}