{"id":58088,"date":"2017-03-17T16:14:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58088"},"modified":"2017-03-17T17:46:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T21:46:17","slug":"boko-harams-leader-abubakar-shekau-reappears-criticises-alleged-cameroon-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58088","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram&#8217;s Leader Abubakar Shekau reappears, criticises alleged Cameroon &#8216;lies&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram&#8217;s elusive leader has made his first appearance in months, claiming responsibility for a spate of suicide bombings and rejecting claims scores of his fighters have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar Shekau spoke for nearly 20 minutes of a 27-minute video obtained by AFP on Friday, in a trademark pose in front of a sub-machine gun, flanked by two masked militant fighters.<br \/>\nSpeaking in the local languages Hausa and Kanuri, as well as Arabic, Shekau said the recording was made on Thursday and that he was &#8220;in good health&#8221;, contrary to claims he may be injured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pulse.ng\/local\/boko-haram-abubakar-shekau-reappears-criticises-cameroon-lies-id6386072.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram&#8217;s elusive leader has made his first appearance in months, claiming responsibility for a spate of suicide bombings and rejecting claims scores of his fighters have been killed. Abubakar Shekau spoke for nearly 20 minutes of a 27-minute video<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58088\">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":[548,554,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameroon","category-nigeria-africa","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58088","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=58088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58090,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58088\/revisions\/58090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}