{"id":85628,"date":"2026-02-26T19:41:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85628"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:41:22","slug":"islamic-militants-increase-attacks-in-benin-niger-and-nigeria-borderlands-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/26\/islamic-militants-increase-attacks-in-benin-niger-and-nigeria-borderlands-group-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic militants increase attacks in Benin, Niger and Nigeria borderlands, group says"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1X8Fj0.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Nigeria Attack\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/islamic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Islamic<\/a>\u00a0militant groups have stepped up attacks and deepened their presence in border areas of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/benin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Benin<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/niger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Niger<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nigeria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Nigeria<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/west-africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">West Africa<\/a> over the past year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/islamic-militants-increase-attacks-in-benin-niger-and-nigeria-borderlands-group-says\/ar-AA1X8Ab7?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69a09f3d15da4cdba973d357144a2c6e&amp;ei=19\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Islamic\u00a0militant groups have stepped up attacks and deepened their presence in border areas of\u00a0Benin,\u00a0Niger\u00a0and\u00a0Nigeria\u00a0in\u00a0West Africa over the past year, Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/benin-jihadist.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85629,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85628\/revisions\/85629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}