{"id":60648,"date":"2020-02-03T10:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T02:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60648"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T02:59:21","slug":"gunmen-kill-20-civilians-in-latest-attack-in-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=60648","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill 20 civilians in latest attack in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Gunmen-kill-20-civilians-in-attack-in-Burkina-Faso-854863?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/521\/52139330.295.jpg\" alt=\"The attack took place in the north of the country\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>The attack took place in the north of the country<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>OUAGADOUGOU, Feb 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0 As many as 20 civilians have been killed in an overnight attack in north-western Burkina Faso.<br><br>Unidentified heavily armed men on motorbikes carried out the attack on a village in Bani municipality, north of the capital Ouagadougou, on Saturday night.<br><br>The latest attack comes a week after 39 people were killed when militants attacked a market in Silgadji town.<br><br>The Sahel region has seen an increase in jihadist violence in recent months.<br><br>News of Saturday&#8217;s attack came as France announced it would send a further 600 soldiers to the Sahel region, bringing the total number of French troops to more than 5,000.<br><br>Last year saw the highest death toll due to armed conflict in the region since 2012, with more than 4,000 people killed.<br><br>The security crisis in the Sahel began when an alliance of separatist and Islamist militants took over northern Mali in 2012. France then launched a military intervention against them.<br><br>Although a peace deal was signed in 2015, it was never fully implemented.<br><br>New armed groups have since emerged and expanded to central Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, including groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group (IS). &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attack took place in the north of the country OUAGADOUGOU, Feb 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0 As many as 20 civilians have been killed in an overnight attack in north-western Burkina Faso. Unidentified heavily armed men on motorbikes carried out the attack on a village in Bani municipality, north of the capital Ouagadougou, on Saturday night. [&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\/60648"}],"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=60648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}