{"id":48250,"date":"2015-02-06T03:32:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T03:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_three-nation_offensive_drives_boko_haram_to_cameroon_rampage\/"},"modified":"2015-02-06T03:32:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T03:32:25","slug":"csm_three-nation_offensive_drives_boko_haram_to_cameroon_rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48250","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) Three-nation offensive drives Boko Haram to Cameroon rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram fighters have killed about 90 civilians and wounded 500 in ongoing skirmishes in a Cameroonian border town near Nigeria, the latest sign of the Islamic extremist group\u2019s extended threat across the region.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 800 Boko Haram militants have waged gruesome attacks, including burning to death civilians, on the town of Fotokol since Wednesday. Cameroon\u2019s information minister, Issa Tchiroma, told The Associated Press that they\u2019ve also burned churches and mosques in addition to looting livestock and food.<\/p>\n<p>Security experts believe the fighters crossed into Cameroon from nearby Gamboru, a Nigerian border town that had been a Boko Haram stronghold since November. Gamboru was retaken earlier this week when Chadian and Nigerian air strikes, supported by Chadian ground troops, drove them out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Africa\/2015\/0205\/Three-nation-offensive-drives-Boko-Haram-to-Cameroon-rampage?cmpid=TW\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram fighters have killed about 90 civilians and wounded 500 in ongoing skirmishes in a Cameroonian border town near Nigeria, the latest sign of the Islamic extremist group\u2019s extended threat across the region. An estimated 800 Boko Haram militants<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48250\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,548,551,143,168,426,327,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-cameroon","category-chad","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48250","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=48250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}