{"id":24269,"date":"2016-03-31T02:14:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T02:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/boko-haram-attack-in-niger-kills-six-soldiers\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T02:14:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T02:14:19","slug":"boko-haram-attack-in-niger-kills-six-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/boko-haram-attack-in-niger-kills-six-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram attack in Niger kills six soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Six soldiers from Niger&#8217;s army were killed in an ambush by Boko Haram militants, the country&#8217;s interior ministry said.}<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened near the town of Diffa close to the border with Nigeria early on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It comes two weeks after a Boko Haram assault on a military convoy in the same area that left one soldier dead.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamist group is based in Nigeria but is being tackled by a multinational force, including soldiers from Niger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Six soldiers from Niger&#8217;s army were killed in an ambush by Boko Haram militants, the country&#8217;s interior ministry said.} The attack happened near the town of Diffa close to the border with Nigeria early on Wednesday. It comes two weeks after a Boko Haram assault on a military convoy in the same area that left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24269"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24269"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}