{"id":48671,"date":"2015-03-04T04:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_boko_haram_can_a_regional_force_really_beat_nigerias_militant_islamists\/"},"modified":"2015-03-04T04:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T04:00:33","slug":"bbc_boko_haram_can_a_regional_force_really_beat_nigerias_militant_islamists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48671","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Boko Haram: Can a regional force really beat Nigeria&#39;s militant Islamists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The area that the MNJTF will be covering draws the force&#8217;s first limit.<\/p>\n<p>Military and diplomatic sources have confirmed that MNJTF soldiers will only operate between the outskirts of Niger&#8217;s Diffa border town, and the towns of Baga and Ngala in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the regional force&#8217;s main task will be to secure the Nigerian side of Lake Chad, which represents &#8220;only 10 to 15% of the entire area where Boko Haram operates&#8221;, according to a diplomat based in the region, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-31695508\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The area that the MNJTF will be covering draws the force&#8217;s first limit. Military and diplomatic sources have confirmed that MNJTF soldiers will only operate between the outskirts of Niger&#8217;s Diffa border town, and the towns of Baga and Ngala<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48671\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,143,168,144,426,327,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48671","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-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48671","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=48671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}