{"id":29228,"date":"2016-10-07T02:59:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T02:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/niger-dozens-of-soldiers-killed-in-refugee-camp\/"},"modified":"2016-10-07T02:59:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T02:59:28","slug":"niger-dozens-of-soldiers-killed-in-refugee-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/niger-dozens-of-soldiers-killed-in-refugee-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: Dozens of soldiers killed in refugee camp attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Prime Minister says death toll expected to rise after unknown assailants attack camp for refugees who fled Mali unrest.}<\/p>\n<p>At least 22 soldiers have been killed in Niger after unknown assailants attacked security forces guarding a camp for Malian refugees, according to Prime Minister Brigi Rafini.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on Thursday targeted a camp in the village of Tassalit in Niger&#8217;s Tahoua region, around 525km northeast of the capital, Niamey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We received information of an attack on the camp in Tassalit. For the moment we are told there are 22 dead, but that is not a total death toll,&#8221; Rafini said in comments broadcast on state-run television TeleSahel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The death toll could increase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister gave no further information concerning the identities of the attackers, or whether any civilians had been killed or wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The camp&#8217;s residents are Malians who fled to neighbouring Niger after armed groups, some with links to al-Qaeda, seized Mali&#8217;s desert north in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>A French-led military intervention has largely driven back the fighters, but violent attacks have continued across the region&#8217;s Sahel band.<\/p>\n<p>Niger&#8217;s army is currently battling Boko Haram fighters who launch raids across its southern border from Nigeria while seeking to prevent an overflow of attacks from Mali.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15543 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0ada0b608ac74e19bc576109ace05a33_18.jpg\" alt=\"Niger&#039;s army is currently battling Boko Haram fighters\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Prime Minister says death toll expected to rise after unknown assailants attack camp for refugees who fled Mali unrest.} At least 22 soldiers have been killed in Niger after unknown assailants attacked security forces guarding a camp for Malian refugees, according to Prime Minister Brigi Rafini. The attack on Thursday targeted a camp in the [&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":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29228","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=29228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29228"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29228"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}