{"id":182582,"date":"2024-10-15T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-humanitarian-response-enables-safe-childbirth-amid-cameroons-catastrophic-floods\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:38:30","slug":"cameroon-humanitarian-response-enables-safe-childbirth-amid-cameroons-catastrophic-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-humanitarian-response-enables-safe-childbirth-amid-cameroons-catastrophic-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Humanitarian Response Enables Safe Childbirth Amid Cameroon&#8217;s Catastrophic Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Fotokol, Far North Cameroon \u2014 &#8220;Our village was peaceful until these armed men appeared, sowing terror and death,&#8221; Aicha* told UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, recalling a night three years ago when her village was attacked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">&#8220;They slaughtered two men, right in front of me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We fled, leaving everything behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Aicha and their four children found safety at a displacement camp in Fotokol, a town in the Far North region of Cameroon. But last month, they were uprooted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410150029.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>Fotokol, Far North Cameroon \u2014 &#8220;Our village was peaceful until these armed men appeared, sowing terror and death,&#8221; Aicha* told UNFPA, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, recalling a night three years ago when her village was attacked. &#8220;They slaughtered two men, right in front of me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We fled, leaving everything behind.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182583,"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":[258,256,4698,377,4331,29398,24464,23753,6878,6068,257,6985,6803,254],"class_list":["post-182582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-catastrophic","tag-childbirth","tag-enables","tag-floods","tag-humanitarian","tag-news","tag-response","tag-safe","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\/182582","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=182582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}