{"id":91316,"date":"2015-02-13T16:31:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=91316"},"modified":"2015-02-13T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:34:34","slug":"boko-haram-launches-first-attack-chad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=91316","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram launches first attack in Chad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Islamist Militant group, Boko Haram has carried out its first attack in neighbouring Chad.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;cVleLwWTRNgimbCjbsCyGnuQlpbLH3nA&#8221;]The group is reported to have crossed Lake Chad on four motorboats and carried out the attack a village.<\/p>\n<p>Several homes were burnt down and some persons injured but an intervention by Chadian troops saved the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Azem Bermandoua Agouna, of the Chadian military is quoted by the BBC as saying; the militants killed one soldier and wounded a further four in the village of Ngouboua.<\/p>\n<p>Two Boko Haram militants were also killed and five injured of them injured as well.<\/p>\n<p>Chad in January 2015 formed a military alliance with Nigeria, Niger, and Cameroon with the aim of defeating Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram since 2009 has killed thousands of people both in north-eastern Nigeria and until recently, in neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.<\/p>\n<p>Millions have also been displaced by their activities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Islamist Militant group, Boko Haram has carried out its first attack in neighbouring Chad. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;cVleLwWTRNgimbCjbsCyGnuQlpbLH3nA&#8221;]The group is reported to have crossed Lake Chad on four motorboats and carried out the attack a village. Several homes were burnt down and some persons injured but an intervention by Chadian troops saved the situation. Colonel Azem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-91316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}