{"id":6344,"date":"2016-06-29T12:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T10:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2016-06-29T12:50:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T10:50:29","slug":"nigeria-air-force-kills-15-insurgents-in-borno-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-air-force-kills-15-insurgents-in-borno-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Air Force kills 15 insurgents in Borno State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Air Force has killed 15 suspected members of the Boko Haram terror group after foiling an ambush by the insurgents at Doron Naira in the terror-prone Borno State, northeast of the country, the airforce said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ayodele Famuyiwa, Air Force spokesperson, said the latest victory against the terrorists brought to the fore the important role of airpower in counter-insurgency operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In furtherance of this role, the NAF has been relentless in its effort to shape the battlespace and provide favourable environment for own surface forces to operate,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Famuyiwa said the recent deployment of additional platforms to increase the tempo of air operations at the commencement of Operation Gama Aiki was aimed at fostering this objective.<\/p>\n<p>Gama Aiki is one operations aimed to limit the reach and impact of the terror group that has claimed the lives of 20,000 and displaced over two million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The foiled plan to ambush own surface forces by BHTs (Boko Haram terrorists) shows that the air efforts by the NAF has started to yield the desired results,&#8221; said Famuyiwa.<\/p>\n<p>An assortment of weapons was recovered from the insurgents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Air Force has killed 15 suspected members of the Boko Haram terror group after foiling an ambush by the insurgents at Doron Naira in the terror-prone Borno State, northeast of the country, the airforce said on Wednesday. Ayodele Famuyiwa, Air Force spokesperson, said the latest victory against the terrorists brought to the fore [&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":[355,413,5294,4687,5293],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-boko-haram","tag-borno-state","tag-naf","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","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=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/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=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}