{"id":23618,"date":"2015-01-26T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T12:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/?p=23618"},"modified":"2015-11-09T23:15:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T20:15:21","slug":"boko-haram-attack-on-nigerias-maiduguri-city-repelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/2015\/01\/boko-haram-attack-on-nigerias-maiduguri-city-repelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram attack on Nigeria&#8217;s Maiduguri city repelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23618 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/2015\/01\/boko-haram-attack-on-nigerias-maiduguri-city-repelled\/attachment\/55\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/551-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s military has repelled a new attack by militant Islamist group Boko Haram on the strategically important north-eastern city of Maiduguri, an army source has told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of militants and soldiers were reportedly killed during a major assault on the city on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The city is quiet on Monday, with some businesses open, a BBC reporter says.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, Boko Haram captured the north-eastern town of Monguno &#8211; the latest to be seized by the group.<\/p>\n<p>It launched an insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria in 2009 to create an Islamic state.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Nigeria on Sunday to call for peaceful elections next month.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria correspondent Will Ross says that Mr Kerry is in Nigeria to show solidarity in the fight against Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>Government troops beat back Boko Haram fighters after they launched an assault on Maiduguri on Sunday night &#8211; the second in less than 24 hours, an army source said.<\/p>\n<p>Both attacks were in the Jimtilo district.<\/p>\n<p>Loud explosions were heard in the city, a resident told the BBC Hausa service.<\/p>\n<p>A 24-hour curfew was imposed on Sunday but this has since been relaxed.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent says the militants have captured so much territory surrounding Maiduguri that there is only one road in and out which is considered safe.<\/p>\n<p>He says there is still a great danger that Boko Haram will return to try again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s military has repelled a new attack by militant Islamist group Boko Haram on the strategically important north-eastern city of Maiduguri, an army source has told the BBC. Dozens of militants and soldiers were reportedly killed during a major assault on the city on Sunday. The city is quiet on Monday, with some businesses open, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ogeysiis-wargelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25074,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23618\/revisions\/25074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/warsom.com\/wararka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}