{"id":178437,"date":"2024-08-13T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-rights-groups-accuse-cameroon-govt-of-abandoning-vulnerable-civilians\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T10:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T08:04:27","slug":"cameroon-rights-groups-accuse-cameroon-govt-of-abandoning-vulnerable-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-rights-groups-accuse-cameroon-govt-of-abandoning-vulnerable-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Rights Groups Accuse Cameroon Govt of Abandoning Vulnerable Civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Yaounde, Cameroon \u2014 Officials in Cameroon say people are again fleeing towns in western regions as separatists block traffic on the streets, burn vehicles that defy their orders and abduct and torture civilians for ransom. Rights groups are accusing Cameroon&#8217;s central government of neglecting and abandoning oppressed civilians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">In a video circulated on social media, a fighter brandishing knives and an AK-47 said he would cut the throats of every civilian who refuses to collaborate with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408130024.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>Yaounde, Cameroon \u2014 Officials in Cameroon say people are again fleeing towns in western regions as separatists block traffic on the streets, burn vehicles that defy their orders and abduct and torture civilians for ransom. Rights groups are accusing Cameroon&#8217;s central government of neglecting and abandoning oppressed civilians. In a video circulated on social media, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00511187:2aebff8f2349f1807325b8bd351ff5ad:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[15046,8893,258,256,4698,377,13304,4357,9835,257,5100,254,5143],"class_list":["post-178437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-abandoning","tag-accuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-civilians","tag-govt","tag-groups","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vulnerable"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00511187:2aebff8f2349f1807325b8bd351ff5ad:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178437","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=178437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}