{"id":179954,"date":"2024-09-05T10:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T08:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/burkina-faso-world-news-in-brief-terror-attacks-in-pakistan-and-burkina-faso-yemen-floods-update-mass-graves-in-libya\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T10:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T08:47:48","slug":"burkina-faso-world-news-in-brief-terror-attacks-in-pakistan-and-burkina-faso-yemen-floods-update-mass-graves-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/burkina-faso-world-news-in-brief-terror-attacks-in-pakistan-and-burkina-faso-yemen-floods-update-mass-graves-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso: World News in Brief &#8211; Terror Attacks in Pakistan and Burkina Faso, Yemen Floods Update, Mass Graves in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">A UN independent human rights expert on Friday condemned recent terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, which resulted in approximately 200 deaths, and in Pakistan, where 28 civilians lost their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Jama&#8217;at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, claimed responsibility for the attack in Burkina Faso on August 24. The attacks in Pakistan, which took place on Wednesday, were claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Ben Saul, the UN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/HRBodies\/HRC\/Pages\/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human Rights Council<\/a>-appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/special-procedures\/sr-terrorism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409040183.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UN independent human rights expert on Friday condemned recent terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso, which resulted in approximately 200 deaths, and in Pakistan, where 28 civilians lost their lives. Jama&#8217;at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group, claimed responsibility for the attack in Burkina Faso on August 24. The attacks in Pakistan, which took place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":179955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,306,16956,16957,6878,24966,4711,892,7883,257,5174,254,5045,6320,5093,6516],"class_list":["post-179954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks","tag-burkina","tag-faso","tag-floods","tag-graves","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terror","tag-update","tag-world","tag-yemen"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}