{"id":7244,"date":"2013-04-18T05:45:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T05:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/al-qaida-spokesman-in-mali-wants-to-surrender\/"},"modified":"2013-04-18T05:44:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T05:44:24","slug":"al-qaida-spokesman-in-mali-wants-to-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/al-qaida-spokesman-in-mali-wants-to-surrender\/","title":{"rendered":"al-Qaida Spokesman in Mali Wants to Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Spokesman of an al-Qaida-linked group in northern Mali wants to surrender.}}<\/p>\n<p>The development suggests a further weakening within the Ansar Dine terror group three months after the French launched a military operation to oust the militants.<\/p>\n<p>The Noukachott Information Agency, or ANI, posted the report late Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The ANI website is frequently used by al-Qaida&#8217;s North African chapter to post messages. It was not possible to independently verify the claim.<\/p>\n<p>The news agency reported that Sanda Ould Boumana of Mauritania has asked Mauritania&#8217;s president to ensure he is extradited to his home country for trial.<\/p>\n<p>For 10 months, Ansar Dine ruled a large swathe of northern Mali. The military operation has left many of the group&#8217;s leaders in hiding or dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Spokesman of an al-Qaida-linked group in northern Mali wants to surrender.}} The development suggests a further weakening within the Ansar Dine terror group three months after the French launched a military operation to oust the militants. The Noukachott Information Agency, or ANI, posted the report late Wednesday. The ANI website is frequently used by [&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-7244","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\/7244","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=7244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7244"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7244"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}