{"id":178376,"date":"2024-08-12T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T08:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-spends-90-of-chinese-development-loans-on-its-french-region-this-could-deepen-the-countrys-divisions\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T10:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T08:01:16","slug":"cameroon-spends-90-of-chinese-development-loans-on-its-french-region-this-could-deepen-the-countrys-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-spends-90-of-chinese-development-loans-on-its-french-region-this-could-deepen-the-countrys-divisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Spends 90% of Chinese Development Loans On Its French Region &#8211; This Could Deepen the Country&#8217;s Divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">In Cameroon, violent clashes between government forces and separatists from the English-speaking parts of the country started in 2017. Since then, at least <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.unocha.org\/en\/country\/cameroon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">598,000<\/a> people have had to leave their homes and about <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.unocha.org\/en\/country\/cameroon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 million<\/a> have been left in need of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The anglophone crisis resulted from the government&#8217;s repressive response to largely peaceful protests in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2023\/07\/cameroon-rampant-atrocities-amid-anglophone-regions-must-be-stopped\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016-2017<\/a>. Protesters were demanding an end to the marginalisation of the anglophone minority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Since then, Cameroon&#8217;s military has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408120008.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Cameroon, violent clashes between government forces and separatists from the English-speaking parts of the country started in 2017. Since then, at least 598,000 people have had to leave their homes and about 2 million have been left in need of humanitarian aid. The anglophone crisis resulted from the government&#8217;s repressive response to largely peaceful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,435,7216,7683,5989,15187,410,8114,257,6324,254,9939],"class_list":["post-178376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-chinese","tag-countrys","tag-deepen","tag-development","tag-divisions","tag-french","tag-loans","tag-news","tag-region","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spends"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}