{"id":160929,"date":"2025-04-30T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/zamfara-bandits-strike-yar-tasha-sahabi-after-community-rejects-dialogue"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T08:55:00","slug":"zamfara-bandits-strike-yar-tasha-sahabi-after-community-rejects-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/zamfara-bandits-strike-yar-tasha-sahabi-after-community-rejects-dialogue","title":{"rendered":"Zamfara: Bandits strike Yar Tasha Sahabi after community rejects dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Bandits have attacked Yar Tasha Sahabi, a community in the Dansadau Emirate of Maru Local Government Area, Zamfara State, leaving several people injured, shops looted, and properties destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>The assault, which occurred late Monday night, comes shortly after the community reportedly rejected any form of dialogue with the armed groups operating across the emirate.<\/p>\n<p>Security analyst, Bakatsine disclosed the incident in a post on X on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBandits attacked Yar Tasha Sahabi in Dansadau Emirate, Maru LGA of Zamfara State last night, several people injured, shops looted and properties destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attack comes in spite of the community\u2019s firm refusal to engage in dialogue with bandits across the Emirate,\u201d Bakatsine wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Security agencies are yet to release a statement on the attack.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Bandits have attacked Yar Tasha Sahabi, a community in the Dansadau Emirate of Maru Local Government Area, Zamfara State, leaving several people injured, shops looted, and properties destroyed. The assault, which occurred late Monday night, comes shortly after the community reportedly rejected any form of dialogue with the armed groups operating across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":160928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-160929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zamfara: Bandits strike Yar Tasha Sahabi after community rejects dialogue - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/zamfara-bandits-strike-yar-tasha-sahabi-after-community-rejects-dialogue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zamfara: Bandits strike Yar Tasha Sahabi after community rejects dialogue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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