{"id":64823,"date":"2018-11-27T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T13:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=64823"},"modified":"2018-11-27T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T13:51:27","slug":"boko-haram-un-reacts-to-killing-of-nigerian-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=64823","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram: UN reacts to killing of Nigerian soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Antonio-Guterres.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">UN Secretary-General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has condemned the attacks in Nigeria by Boko Haram on security forces and civilians, especially in Borno.<\/p>\n<p>Guterres, in a statement on Monday by his spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, extended his \u201cheartfelt condolences to the Government of Nigeria and to the families of those who have lost their life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The UN chief said several other bases were targeted, according to news reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who violate international humanitarian, human rights and refugee law must be held accountable,\u201d Guterres said.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented that the attacks came as \u201cnational elections are due to be held in February next year\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Nations stands in solidarity with the Government of Nigeria in its fight against terrorism and violent extremism,\u201d the UN chief said.<\/p>\n<p>In his reaction to the killing of military personnel in Metele village of Borno State, President Muhammadu Buhari had assured that immediate measures were being taken to ensure that the loopholes which led to the fatalities were blocked once and for all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Secretary-General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres has condemned the attacks in Nigeria by Boko Haram on security forces and civilians, especially in Borno. Guterres, in a statement on Monday by his spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, extended his \u201cheartfelt condolences to the Government of Nigeria and to the families of those who have lost their life\u201d. The UN chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2383,1795],"class_list":["post-64823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-boko-haram-insurgents","tag-un"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}