{"id":78633,"date":"2020-06-12T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T03:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=78633"},"modified":"2020-06-12T11:59:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T03:59:54","slug":"ivory-coast-army-says-12-soldiers-killed-and-seven-wounded-in-cross-border-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=78633","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast army says 12 soldiers killed and seven wounded in cross-border attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img src=\"https:\/\/africa.cgtn.com\/wp-content\/photo-gallery\/2017\/12\/1407443596-2748-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62627\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Ivory Coast soldiers <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABIDJAN, June 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Some 12 Ivorian soldiers were killed and other seven wounded in an attack at a northern border post near Burkina Faso early on Thursday, a senior officer at the Ivorian army chief of staff office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two other gendarmes are reported missing, while one assailant was killed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer said the assailants were believed to have come from neighbouring Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso launched a joint military operation last month to the tackle expanding threat from Islamist jihadists linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State in the Sahel region. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivory Coast soldiers ABIDJAN, June 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Some 12 Ivorian soldiers were killed and other seven wounded in an attack at a northern border post near Burkina Faso early on Thursday, a senior officer at the Ivorian army chief of staff office said. Two other gendarmes are reported missing, while one assailant was killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":78636,"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\/78633"}],"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=78633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}