{"id":195608,"date":"2025-04-07T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-release-of-an-83-year-old-missionary-and-his-assistant-after-48-hours\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T21:03:16","slug":"cameroon-release-of-an-83-year-old-missionary-and-his-assistant-after-48-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-release-of-an-83-year-old-missionary-and-his-assistant-after-48-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Release of an 83-Year-Old Missionary and His Assistant After 48 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Yaound\u00e9 \u2014 The kidnapping and subsequent release, within 48 hours, of an 83-year-old British missionary and his Cameroonian assistant have brought the forgotten conflict in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon back into the international media spotlight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"101\">Brother Huub Welters, a Missionary of the Mill Hill Missionary Society of St. Joseph (MHM), and his assistant, Henry Kang, were kidnapped on April 1 on the road from Bamenda to Ilung. As the Mill Hill Missionaries report on their website,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504070598.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>Yaound\u00e9 \u2014 The kidnapping and subsequent release, within 48 hours, of an 83-year-old British missionary and his Cameroonian assistant have brought the forgotten conflict in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon back into the international media spotlight. Brother Huub Welters, a Missionary of the Mill Hill Missionary Society of St. Joseph (MHM), and his assistant, Henry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[37014,258,256,5931,4698,377,9088,36919,257,6011,254],"class_list":["post-195608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-83yearold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assistant","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-hours","tag-missionary","tag-news","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/195608","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=195608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}