{"id":44235,"date":"2014-05-24T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn_u-n-_security_council_slaps_boko_haram_with_sanctions\/"},"modified":"2014-05-24T01:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T01:00:06","slug":"cnn_u-n-_security_council_slaps_boko_haram_with_sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44235","title":{"rendered":"(CNN) U.N. Security Council slaps Boko Haram with sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.N. Security Council approved sanctions Thursday against Nigeria&#8217;s Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>It added the terrorist group to the United Nation&#8217;s 1267 sanctions list, a list of al Qaeda-linked organizations subject to arms embargoes, travel bans and asset freezes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, the Security Council took an important step in support of the government of Nigeria&#8217;s efforts to defeat Boko Haram and hold its murderous leadership accountable for atrocities,&#8221; said Samantha Power, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By adding Boko Haram to the U.N.&#8217;s 1267 sanctions list, the Security Council has helped to close off important avenues of funding, travel and weapons to Boko Haram, and shown global unity against their savage actions,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/05\/22\/world\/africa\/nigeria-violence\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.N. Security Council approved sanctions Thursday against Nigeria&#8217;s Boko Haram. It added the terrorist group to the United Nation&#8217;s 1267 sanctions list, a list of al Qaeda-linked organizations subject to arms embargoes, travel bans and asset freezes. &#8220;Today, the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44235\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,202,119,327,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-globalization","category-nigeria","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}