{"id":186374,"date":"2024-12-12T00:27:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/chad-military-frees-abducted-cameroonians-while-troops-deployed-to-secure-border\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T00:27:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:27:38","slug":"chad-military-frees-abducted-cameroonians-while-troops-deployed-to-secure-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/chad-military-frees-abducted-cameroonians-while-troops-deployed-to-secure-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Military Frees Abducted Cameroonians, While Troops Deployed to Secure Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Yaounde \u2014 Chad&#8217;s military says it has deployed several hundred troops along the border with Cameroon to stop rebels from abducting civilians after armed men kidnapped a dozen Cameroonians, including a popular traditional ruler this week. Chad&#8217;s military has freed the kidnap victims but says troops need civilian help to stop a wave of local intercommunal violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The latest wave of violence between the Moussey and Massa communities erupted in border areas late last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Officials in Cameroon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412110656.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 \u2014 Chad&#8217;s military says it has deployed several hundred troops along the border with Cameroon to stop rebels from abducting civilians after armed men kidnapped a dozen Cameroonians, including a popular traditional ruler this week. Chad&#8217;s military has freed the kidnap victims but says troops need civilian help to stop a wave of local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186375,"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\/00170674:04f1edfb21eaae564b0d588f1e663537:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[3271,258,256,1900,377,17462,4699,9038,9978,3318,257,7904,254,8515],"class_list":["post-186374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroonians","tag-chad","tag-deployed","tag-frees","tag-military","tag-news","tag-secure","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troops"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00170674:04f1edfb21eaae564b0d588f1e663537:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186374","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=186374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}