{"id":3632,"date":"2025-11-20T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:05:14","slug":"a-nation-unravels-is-al-qaida-about-to-get-its-very-own-country-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=3632","title":{"rendered":"A nation unravels: Is al-Qaida about to get its very own country? Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mali is on the brink of falling under the control of al-Qaida&#8217;s regional affiliate, JNIM, marking a significant shift in West African power dynamics. The group has implemented a sophisticated strategy, effectively strangling the state and establishing a shadow administration. This unfolding crisis threatens to create a vast arc of jihadist influence across the Sahel, with profound global implications.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali is on the brink of falling under the control of al-Qaida&#8217;s regional affiliate, JNIM, marking a significant shift in West African power dynamics. The group has implemented a sophisticated <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=3632\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}