{"id":4735,"date":"2014-08-09T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T04:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2014-08-09T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T04:05:23","slug":"us-to-sell-black-hawk-attack-helicopters-to-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/us-to-sell-black-hawk-attack-helicopters-to-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"US to sell Black Hawk attack helicopters to Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US is planning to sell Tunisia a dozen advanced attack helicopters as it seeks to help the North African country confront a mounting threat from armed groups.<\/p>\n<p>Moncef Marzouki , the Tunisian president, who is in Washington DC for a summit between US and African leaders, has described the purchase &#8220;a matter of urgency&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We asked the United States to give us about 12 Black Hawks,&#8221; he said during a speech on Tuesday at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We badly need them now &#8230; we didn&#8217;t expect that Tunisia would become a country where we would have these terrorist attacks like in Syria&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tunisia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2014\/08\/us-sell-attack-helicopters-tunisia-201486103531412440.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US is planning to sell Tunisia a dozen advanced attack helicopters as it seeks to help the North African country confront a mounting threat from armed groups. Moncef Marzouki , the Tunisian president, who is in Washington DC for a summit between US and African leaders, has described the purchase &#8220;a matter of urgency&#8221;. [&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":[642],"tags":[258,256,3483,3481,1631,257,4694,254,3482,4703,653,678,1790],"class_list":["post-4735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atlantic-council","tag-black-hawks","tag-moncef-marzouki","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorist-attacks","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735","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=4735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4735\/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=4735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}