{"id":4102,"date":"2012-11-14T01:58:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/au-backs-plan-to-deploy-troops-to-north-mali\/"},"modified":"2012-11-14T01:57:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T01:57:43","slug":"au-backs-plan-to-deploy-troops-to-north-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/au-backs-plan-to-deploy-troops-to-north-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"AU Backs Plan to Deploy Troops to North Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The African Union (AU) has backed a plan to send troops into Mali to clear the north of Islamist extremists.}}<\/p>\n<p>It endorsed the decision by West Africa&#8217;s regional bloc Ecowas on Sunday to send 3,300 troops to help Mali&#8217;s government retake the region.<\/p>\n<p>The plans will now go before the UN Security Council for approval before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Islamist groups and Tuareg rebels took control of the north after Mali&#8217;s president was overthrown in March.<\/p>\n<p>The UN has warned that the Islamist militias are imposing a harsh version of Sharia law on the areas they control and that forced marriage, forced prostitution, and rape are becoming widespread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The African Union (AU) has backed a plan to send troops into Mali to clear the north of Islamist extremists.}} It endorsed the decision by West Africa&#8217;s regional bloc Ecowas on Sunday to send 3,300 troops to help Mali&#8217;s government retake the region. The plans will now go before the UN Security Council for approval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}