{"id":4320,"date":"2014-07-22T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2014-07-22T09:48:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T02:48:19","slug":"boko-haram-controls-damboa-in-borno-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/boko-haram-controls-damboa-in-borno-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram &#8216;controls&#8217; Damboa in Borno, Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s militant Islamists are in control of the key town of Damboa in north-eastern Nigeria, a local vigilante leader has told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>The vigilante force defending the town fled on Sunday, and Islamist group Boko Haram&#8217;s black flag is now flying over Damboa, he said.<\/p>\n<p>At least 40 people were killed when Boko Haram attacked Damboa on Friday, the vigilante leader added.<\/p>\n<p>The group has been fighting since 2009 to create an Islamic state in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>In April, it sparked international outrage by abducting more than 200 girls from their boarding school in Chibok, in Borno state, like Damboa&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28406645\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s militant Islamists are in control of the key town of Damboa in north-eastern Nigeria, a local vigilante leader has told the BBC. The vigilante force defending the town fled on Sunday, and Islamist group Boko Haram&#8217;s black flag is now flying over Damboa, he said. At least 40 people were killed when Boko Haram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[3028,258,256,355,413,412,2186,626,3027,257,4687,393,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abducting-more-than-200-girls","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-borno-state","tag-chibok","tag-damboa","tag-islamic-state-in-nigeria","tag-militant-islamists","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/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=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}