{"id":179566,"date":"2024-08-30T10:47:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T08:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-media-denounce-surge-in-attacks-as-2025-election-nears\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T10:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T08:47:18","slug":"cameroon-media-denounce-surge-in-attacks-as-2025-election-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-media-denounce-surge-in-attacks-as-2025-election-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Media Denounce Surge in Attacks As 2025 Election Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">Yaounde, Cameroon \u2014 Journalists in Cameroon say attacks on reporters have surged as the country prepares for next year&#8217;s presidential elections. Ninety-one-year-old President Paul Biya, who has ruled the country for over four decades, may run again. Rights groups say six journalists have been assaulted by gunmen in the past weeks, while several reporters and a radio station have been ordered to stop broadcasting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Network of Cameroon Media Owners, or REPAC, says four of its members have been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408300013.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 Journalists in Cameroon say attacks on reporters have surged as the country prepares for next year&#8217;s presidential elections. Ninety-one-year-old President Paul Biya, who has ruled the country for over four decades, may run again. Rights groups say six journalists have been assaulted by gunmen in the past weeks, while several reporters and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00620614:4836eb4913917df4a15e33561409e629:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,306,4698,377,11583,3119,4959,6145,257,254,10716],"class_list":["post-179566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-denounce","tag-election","tag-media","tag-nears","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00620614:4836eb4913917df4a15e33561409e629:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179566","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=179566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}