{"id":182330,"date":"2024-10-11T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-bans-reporting-on-president-paul-biyas-health-whereabouts\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T10:30:09","slug":"cameroon-bans-reporting-on-president-paul-biyas-health-whereabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-bans-reporting-on-president-paul-biyas-health-whereabouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Bans Reporting On President Paul Biya&#8217;s Health, Whereabouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">New York \u2014 The Cameroonian government should end its threats to sanction private media journalists who report on the condition and whereabouts of President Paul Biya, 91, who has not been seen publicly for over a month and has missed scheduled international engagements, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">&#8220;The Cameroonian government should simply put the rumors to rest by arranging a public appearance by the head of state,&#8221; said Angela Quintal, head of CPJ&#8217;s Africa program, in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410110022.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>New York \u2014 The Cameroonian government should end its threats to sanction private media journalists who report on the condition and whereabouts of President Paul Biya, 91, who has not been seen publicly for over a month and has missed scheduled international engagements, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday. &#8220;The Cameroonian government should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580096:10890bb447e5fecf52c9d21ab831da16:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,7339,16128,4698,377,5731,257,10695,2450,12203,254,17438],"class_list":["post-182330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bans","tag-biyas","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-health","tag-news","tag-paul","tag-president","tag-reporting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-whereabouts"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00580096:10890bb447e5fecf52c9d21ab831da16:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182330","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=182330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}