{"id":245953,"date":"2015-01-23T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/we-dont-need-international-troop-support-to\/"},"modified":"2015-01-23T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T20:13:00","slug":"we-dont-need-international-troop-support-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/01\/23\/we-dont-need-international-troop-support-to\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Don\u2019t Need International Troop Support To \u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.informationng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/NSA-DASUKI.jpg\" alt=\"NSA-DASUKI\" width=\"396\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-96585\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p>National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, Friday, ruled out the need for a United Nations or African Union-backed force to fight Boko Haram. According to him, Nigeria and its partners can handle the threat.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that African leaders will discuss the possibility of \u201cenhanced international support\u201d against Boko Haram on the sidelines of an AU summit later this month, as the group continues its campaign of terror.<\/p>\n<p>Dasuki however said such support would be uncalled for. \u201cIt\u2019s something that we can do. It\u2019s absolutely something we can do,\u201d he told BBC World Service radio in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think as it is we are in good shape to address the issue with those partners, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the four countries, this week, met to discuss details of a new regional force to counter the rising threat from the Islamist militants, following the collapse of the Multi-national Joint Task Force, which had begun even before the onslaught on its headquarters by the terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s meeting agreed to transfer the headquarters of the new force from Nigeria to the Chadian capital, N\u2019Djamena, reflecting concern about Boko Haram\u2019s rising transnational threat.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram has seized dozens of towns and villages in the northeast in the last six months and now controls the border of Borno State with Niger, Chad and Cameroon.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki, Friday, ruled out the need for a United Nations or African Union-backed force to fight Boko Haram. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}