{"id":60322,"date":"2020-01-30T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60322"},"modified":"2020-01-30T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:45:39","slug":"mali-jihadists-recapture-village-where-earlier-raid-killed-20-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60322","title":{"rendered":"Mali jihadists recapture village where earlier raid killed 20 soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1-161.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1-161.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NOUAKCHOTT, Jan 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Jihadists on Wednesday regained<br>control of a village in central Mali, locals said, returning to the site of a<br>recent attack that killed 20 members of the security forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Malian army, which had retaken control of Soloko, had \u201cfallen back\u201d to<br>the neighbouring area of Diabaly and jihadists had returned to the village, a<br>local teacher said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sunday attack on the Soloko camp claimed by the Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) \u2014 an umbrella group of Al-Qaeda affiliates \u2014 killed 20 Malian security forces and wounded five, according to authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe jihadists\u2026 have raised their flag in the gendarmes\u2019 camp,\u201d said<br>Hamed Drame, president of the Soloko youth association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is a threat over the whole town. We have alerted the authorities but<br>until now there has been no reaction from them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sokolo is the last town before the Mauritanian border, near a forest<br>considered a base for groups linked to Al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite aid from French and UN forces, Mali is struggling to quell unrest<br>that began in 2012 in the north of the country before spreading to its<br>centre, as well as neighbouring Sahel states Burkina Faso and Niger. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOUAKCHOTT, Jan 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Jihadists on Wednesday regainedcontrol of a village in central Mali, locals said, returning to the site of arecent attack that killed 20 members of the security forces. The Malian army, which had retaken control of Soloko, had \u201cfallen back\u201d tothe neighbouring area of Diabaly and jihadists had returned 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\/60322"}],"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=60322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}