{"id":50129,"date":"2015-06-04T04:04:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/voa_nigeria_leadership_change_could_boost_us_role_in_boko_haram_fight\/"},"modified":"2015-06-04T04:04:55","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T04:04:55","slug":"voa_nigeria_leadership_change_could_boost_us_role_in_boko_haram_fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50129","title":{"rendered":"(VOA) Nigeria Leadership Change Could Boost US Role in Boko Haram Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An online video posted this week purportedly shows Boko Haram fighters using the logo \u201cIslamic State in West Africa.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In the video, a militant accuses countries fighting Boko Haram of lying about the extent of their success in pushing back the group.<\/p>\n<p>The video comes just days after newly inaugurated President Muhammadu Buhari vowed to make fighting Boko Haram a top priority, an issue that he discussed with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who attended the inauguration last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It is that change in leadership last week that analysts say could breathe new life into US. efforts to assist the country in fighting Boko Haram, by giving the countries a chance to reset relations that had become strained under former President Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/nigeria-leadership-change-improved-us-ties-may-aid-boko-haram-fight\/2806106.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online video posted this week purportedly shows Boko Haram fighters using the logo \u201cIslamic State in West Africa.\u201d\u009d In the video, a militant accuses countries fighting Boko Haram of lying about the extent of their success in pushing back<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50129\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,209,143,168,144,426,327,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50129","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-americau-s-a","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\/50129","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=50129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}