{"id":181797,"date":"2024-10-04T00:13:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-ratchets-up-media-censorship-ahead-of-2025-election\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T00:13:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T22:13:48","slug":"cameroon-ratchets-up-media-censorship-ahead-of-2025-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-ratchets-up-media-censorship-ahead-of-2025-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Ratchets Up Media Censorship Ahead of 2025 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Dakar \u2014 After a month of seeing an empty television studio with the word &#8220;censored&#8221; splashed across the screen, Cameroonians are finally able to watch \u00c9quinoxe TV&#8217;s flagship Sunday politics show &#8220;Droit de R\u00e9ponse&#8221; again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">The privately owned station fell foul of Cameroon&#8217;s regulatory National Communication Council (NCC), which judged it to have harmed the reputations of two ministers in the government of 91-year-old President Paul Biya, who has ruled the Central African country since 1982. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410030020.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>Dakar \u2014 After a month of seeing an empty television studio with the word &#8220;censored&#8221; splashed across the screen, Cameroonians are finally able to watch \u00c9quinoxe TV&#8217;s flagship Sunday politics show &#8220;Droit de R\u00e9ponse&#8221; again. The privately owned station fell foul of Cameroon&#8217;s regulatory National Communication Council (NCC), which judged it to have harmed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181798,"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":[258,256,7019,4698,377,8594,3119,4959,257,49671,254],"class_list":["post-181797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-censorship","tag-election","tag-media","tag-news","tag-ratchets","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/181797","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=181797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}