{"id":7304,"date":"2019-02-06T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=7304"},"modified":"2019-02-06T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:53:02","slug":"troops-kill-mali-mayor-by-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=7304","title":{"rendered":"Troops kill Mali mayor by accident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAMAKO, Feb 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The authorities in Mali have said soldiers accidentally killed the mayor of a north-eastern town at a checkpoint.<br><br>Hamid Ahmed Ag Mohamed &#8211; the mayor of And\u00e9raboukane &#8211; was being driven to an airstrip to board a UN flight when he was shot dead.<br><br>A military statement said his vehicle failed to stop as it approached the checkpoint. His predecessor was killed in a jihadist attack.<br><br>The mayor was a key player in the 2015 peace agreement between the government and northern rebel groups seeking autonomy. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAMAKO, Feb 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The authorities in Mali have said soldiers accidentally killed the mayor of a north-eastern town at a checkpoint. Hamid Ahmed Ag Mohamed &#8211; the mayor of And\u00e9raboukane &#8211; was being driven to an airstrip to board a UN flight when he was shot dead. A military statement said his vehicle [&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\/7304"}],"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=7304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}