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El Tina \/ N’djamena \/ Mabrouka \u2014 Chadian President Mahamat Idriss D\u00e9by has ordered the immediate closure of Chad’s 1,300-kilometre border with Sudan and placed the military on maximum alert following a deadly drone strike on a border town, yesterday.<\/em><\/p>\n The strike hit a gathering of civilians in the town of Mabrouka in the Wadi Fira region during a Ramadan iftar, killing at least 16 people, according to local sources. The drone was reported to have originated from Sudan.<\/p>\n D\u00e9by described the attack…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> El Tina \/ N’djamena \/ Mabrouka \u2014 Chadian President Mahamat Idriss D\u00e9by has ordered the immediate closure of Chad’s 1,300-kilometre border with Sudan and placed the military on maximum alert following a deadly drone strike on a border town, yesterday. The strike hit a gathering of civilians in the town of Mabrouka in the Wadi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":227498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580774:ea64a5860dbafafb1ac88d0909a969ac:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,1900,4699,13304,23813,7500,257,5223,254,2080,4708,1613,30712],"class_list":["post-227497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-chad","tag-civilians","tag-drone","tag-kills","tag-news","tag-shuts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-tina"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580774:ea64a5860dbafafb1ac88d0909a969ac:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227497","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=227497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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