{"id":54052,"date":"2016-04-13T15:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_boko_haram_crisis_huge_rise_in_child_suicide_bombers\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T15:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:00:55","slug":"bbc_boko_haram_crisis_huge_rise_in_child_suicide_bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54052","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Boko Haram crisis: &#39;Huge rise&#39; in child suicide bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram&#8217;s use of child bombers has increased over the last year with one in five suicide attacks now done by children, the UN&#8217;s child agency says.<br \/>\nGirls, who are often drugged, were behind three-quarters of such attacks committed by the militant Islamist group in Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad.<br \/>\nIt is an 11-fold increase with four attacks in 2014 compared to 44 the next year, including January 2016.<br \/>\nThe change in tactics reflects the loss of territory in Nigeria by the group.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-36023444\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram&#8217;s use of child bombers has increased over the last year with one in five suicide attacks now done by children, the UN&#8217;s child agency says. Girls, who are often drugged, were behind three-quarters of such attacks committed by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54052\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,101,168,426,327,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54052","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-children","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\/54052","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=54052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}