{"id":4677,"date":"2014-08-06T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T11:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4677"},"modified":"2014-08-06T18:43:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T11:43:26","slug":"boko-haram-crisis-nigerias-female-bombers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/boko-haram-crisis-nigerias-female-bombers-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria&#8217;s female bombers strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s militant Islamist group Boko Haram is accused of unleashing a new weapon of war &#8211; the female suicide bomber, fuelling concern that its insurgency has entered a more ruthless phase.<\/p>\n<p>Four of them &#8211; all teenage girls &#8211; carried out attacks in the biggest northern city, Kano, last week, leading to social media sites going viral with speculation &#8211; dismissed as unfounded by the government &#8211; that Boko Haram had turned some of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in April into human bombs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28657085\" 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 Islamist group Boko Haram is accused of unleashing a new weapon of war &#8211; the female suicide bomber, fuelling concern that its insurgency has entered a more ruthless phase. Four of them &#8211; all teenage girls &#8211; carried out attacks in the biggest northern city, Kano, last week, leading to social media sites [&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":[258,256,355,360,3424,357,2018,694,3158,3108,3107,257,4687,393,254,361,4692],"class_list":["post-4677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-female-suicide-bomber","tag-human-bombs","tag-islamist","tag-islamist-group","tag-kano","tag-militant","tag-militant-islamist-group","tag-militant-islamist-group-boko-haram","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suicide-bomber","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677","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=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/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=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}