{"id":50036,"date":"2015-05-29T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_fight_against_boko_haram_requires_regional_might_un\/"},"modified":"2015-05-29T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:00:12","slug":"reuters_fight_against_boko_haram_requires_regional_might_un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50036","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Fight against Boko Haram requires regional might: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian President-elect Muhammadu Buhari&#8217;s promised campaign to defeat Boko Haram could drive more militants over the country&#8217;s borders, raising the need for cooperation between governments across the region, senior U.N. officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the eve of the former army general&#8217;s inauguration, they voiced hope that the new Abuja government would crush the Islamist militants accused of using women and children as sexual slaves and suicide bombers<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is this concern that success inside northeast Nigeria spells trouble for Niger, Cameroon, and even potentially Chad. So there is a lot of focus on regional cooperation,&#8221; Robert Piper, U.N. Assistant Secretary-General and regional humanitarian coordinator for the Sahel, told a news briefing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idAFKBN0OE0K020150529?sp=true\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian President-elect Muhammadu Buhari&#8217;s promised campaign to defeat Boko Haram could drive more militants over the country&#8217;s borders, raising the need for cooperation between governments across the region, senior U.N. officials said on Thursday. Speaking on the eve of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50036\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,143,168,144,119,426,327,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50036","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-globalization","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\/50036","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=50036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}