{"id":196546,"date":"2025-04-22T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-all-of-africa-today-april-22-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:26:43","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-april-22-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/africa-all-of-africa-today-april-22-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; April 22, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><strong>ISWAP Claims Responsibility for String of Deadly Attacks Across Nigeria<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"159\">The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/iswap-claims-responsibility-deadly-attacks-nigeria-2025-04-21\/\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> responsibility for a series of deadly attacks earlier this month targeting Nigerian security forces and Christian civilians in northeastern Nigeria. Through its Amaq news agency, ISWAP released seven messages, including a video and photo albums, to document the assaults. In Borno state, the group said it <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504220067.html\" rel=\"noopener\">attacked <\/a>an army barracks in Yamtage, killing three soldiers and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504220079.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 ISWAP Claims Responsibility for String of Deadly Attacks Across Nigeria The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) claimed responsibility for a series of deadly attacks earlier this month targeting Nigerian security forces and Christian civilians in northeastern Nigeria. Through its Amaq news agency, ISWAP released seven messages, including a video and photo albums, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8142,257,254,6637,421],"class_list":["post-196546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-april","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196546","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}