{"id":86714,"date":"2022-05-28T08:10:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T02:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=86714"},"modified":"2022-05-28T08:10:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T02:40:56","slug":"burkina-fasos-un-chief-condemns-killings-by-armed-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/burkina-fasos-un-chief-condemns-killings-by-armed-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso&#8217;s UN chief condemns killings by armed groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the killing of 50 people in Madjoari, east of Burkina Faso, by armed extremist groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, UN Chief Stephane Dujarric expressed his condolences to the bereaved families and urged the Burkinabe authorities to spare no effort in identifying and swiftly prosecuting those responsible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of Guterres&#8217; statement, the United Nations reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Burkina Faso in its efforts to prevent terrorism and violent extremism and ensure civilian rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It noted that two similar attacks in Madjoari on May 14 and 19 resulted in the death of 17 civilians and 11 soldiers, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the killing of 50 people in Madjoari, east of Burkina Faso, by armed extremist groups. In a statement, UN Chief Stephane Dujarric expressed his condolences to the bereaved families and urged the Burkinabe authorities to spare no effort in identifying and swiftly prosecuting those responsible. As part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[261,262,260],"class_list":["post-86714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-burkina","tag-faso","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86716,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86714\/revisions\/86716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}