{"id":4874,"date":"2014-08-18T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T08:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2014-08-18T15:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T08:07:12","slug":"chadian-soldiers-rescue-85-nigerians-from-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/chad\/chadian-soldiers-rescue-85-nigerians-from-boko-haram\/","title":{"rendered":"Chadian soldiers &#8216;rescue 85 Nigerians from Boko Haram&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports are emerging of the rescue by Chadian troops of some 85 Nigerian villagers abducted earlier this week by suspected Boko Haram militants.<\/p>\n<p>A Nigerian security official told AFP that they had intercepted a convoy of buses transporting gunmen and the villagers in a routine security check.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the Nigerian or Chadian militaries have confirmed the reports.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram is accused of kidnapping hundreds of people in the north-east of Nigeria, and neighbouring Cameroon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chad News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28824379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Chad\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/chad\/\">Chad<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports are emerging of the rescue by Chadian troops of some 85 Nigerian villagers abducted earlier this week by suspected Boko Haram militants. A Nigerian security official told AFP that they had intercepted a convoy of buses transporting gunmen and the villagers in a routine security check. Neither the Nigerian or Chadian militaries have confirmed [&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":[405],"tags":[258,256,355,379,4696,4699,778,3641,3642,659,257,254],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chad","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-boko-haram-militants","tag-central-africa","tag-chad","tag-chad-news","tag-chadian-troops","tag-kidnapping-hundreds-of-people","tag-militants","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874","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=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/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=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}