{"id":31192,"date":"2016-12-19T02:45:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T02:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/insurgency-germany-donates-eur3m-equipment-to\/"},"modified":"2016-12-19T02:45:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T02:45:33","slug":"insurgency-germany-donates-eur3m-equipment-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/insurgency-germany-donates-eur3m-equipment-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurgency: Germany donates \u20ac3m, equipment to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The German government on Sunday donated military equipment and the sum of \u20ac3m to fight insurgency in the North-East region.}<\/p>\n<p>The German Minister of Defence, Dr. Ursula Von der Layen, handed over the equipment to her Nigerian counterpart, Mansur Dan-Ali, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, saying that the donation was done under the 2012-2016 Memorandum of Understanding between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment included Vallon Metal Detector, Ground Surveillance Radar System, Counter-Improvised Explosive Device and Explosive Ordinance Disposal Equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Von der Layen clarified that the assistance did not extend to the sale of sophisticated military weapons.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cWhen I meet my counterparts around the world, the topic at the top of the agenda is always the same; the fight against terrorism and extremism\u2013 these are terrorists who use religion for their own evil purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverywhere, terrorists sit behind a blind trail of destruction and death; they seek the vulnerable like children, just like the Boko Haram does in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, combating the enemy of this nature is mostly difficult and dangerous. It is in our common interest that the population in my country and here in Nigeria is saved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dan-Ali said the equipment would be deployed effectively.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17141 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mansur-dan-ali.jpg\" alt=\"Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The German government on Sunday donated military equipment and the sum of \u20ac3m to fight insurgency in the North-East region.} The German Minister of Defence, Dr. Ursula Von der Layen, handed over the equipment to her Nigerian counterpart, Mansur Dan-Ali, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, saying that the donation was done under 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":[2580],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-punch"],"bylines":[{"id":2580,"name":"Punch","slug":"punch","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":2580,"name":"Punch","slug":"punch","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\/31192","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=31192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31192"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31192"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}