{"id":5225,"date":"2014-09-13T14:07:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2014-09-13T14:08:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T07:08:45","slug":"nigerias-boko-haram-puts-maiduguri-under-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-boko-haram-puts-maiduguri-under-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria’s Boko Haram puts Maiduguri under ‘siege’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigeria’s militant Islamists have “completely surrounded” Maiduguri, the main city in north-eastern Borno state, traditional elders have warned.<\/p>\n

The military needed to “fortify” the city, which had a population of more than two million, to prevent an assault “from all directions”, they said.<\/p>\n

The Boko Haram militants had “annexed” areas that were about 50km (30 miles) from Maiduguri, they said.<\/p>\n

Boko Haram declared a caliphate in areas it controls last month.<\/p>\n

Without mentioning the statement issued by the Borno Elders Forum (BEF), the defence ministry has dismissed “alarmist” reports on Maiduguri.<\/p>\n

On its Twitter account, it said “Security Arrangements for the Defence of Maiduguri has been upgraded to handle any planned attack”…<\/p>\n

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Nigeria’s militant Islamists have “completely surrounded” Maiduguri, the main city in north-eastern Borno state, traditional elders have warned. The military needed to “fortify” the city, which had a population of more than two million, to prevent an assault “from all directions”, they said. The Boko Haram militants had “annexed” areas that were about 50km (30 […]<\/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":[258,256,355,379,4024,413,530,3027,257,4687,393,4023,254,4692],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-boko-haram-militants","tag-borno-elders-forum","tag-borno-state","tag-maiduguri","tag-militant-islamists","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias-militant-islamists","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","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=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/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=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}