{"id":14908,"date":"2020-11-27T19:11:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/11\/27\/the-hunt-for-jihadists-in-africas-sahel-region\/"},"modified":"2020-11-27T19:11:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:11:02","slug":"the-hunt-for-jihadists-in-africas-sahel-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2020\/11\/27\/the-hunt-for-jihadists-in-africas-sahel-region\/","title":{"rendered":"The hunt for jihadists in Africa&rsquo;s Sahel region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>For this report, FRANCE 24&rsquo;s team embedded with Niger&rsquo;s special forces. In\u00a0this epicentre\u00a0of West African\u00a0jihadism, local \u00ab\u00a0franchises\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0of the Islamic State group and al Qaeda are competing to establish a vast \u00ab\u00a0caliphate\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0across the Sahel region. Local villagers are caught in the crossfire, afraid that jihadists may infiltrate the population and living in fear of reprisals. Some 4,000 civilians died in this zone in 2019 alone. Niger&rsquo;s government has twin aims: to keep people safe and\u00a0to recover territory, in order to prevent the \u00ab\u00a0caliphate\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0rising from its ashes on the African continent.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this report, FRANCE 24&rsquo;s team embedded with Niger&rsquo;s special forces. In\u00a0this epicentre\u00a0of West African\u00a0jihadism, local \u00ab\u00a0franchises\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0of the Islamic State group and al Qaeda are competing to establish a vast \u00ab\u00a0caliphate\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0across the Sahel region. Local villagers are caught in the crossfire, afraid that jihadists may infiltrate the population and living in fear of reprisals. Some &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-14908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}