{"id":196045,"date":"2025-04-14T23:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T21:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigeria-balancing-economics-and-security-on-the-nigeria-cameroon-border\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T23:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T21:18:57","slug":"nigeria-balancing-economics-and-security-on-the-nigeria-cameroon-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigeria-balancing-economics-and-security-on-the-nigeria-cameroon-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Balancing Economics and Security On the Nigeria-Cameroon Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The two countries must cooperate to stop Boko Haram from taking advantage of open borders to revive their operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">On 27 January, the governors of Borno in Nigeria and Cameroon&#8217;s Far North Region inaugurated a <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.africanews.com\/2025\/01\/29\/reouverture-du-marche-de-banki-un-espoir-de-relance-economique-et-de-paix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">livestock<\/a> market in Banki, once a major hub of cross-border trade between the two countries. The Amchid\u00e9-Banki border post, like several others between Cameroon and Nigeria, was closed in 2014 at the height of Boko Haram activity in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">In early 2014, the violent extremist group&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504140521.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>The two countries must cooperate to stop Boko Haram from taking advantage of open borders to revive their operations. On 27 January, the governors of Borno in Nigeria and Cameroon&#8217;s Far North Region inaugurated a livestock market in Banki, once a major hub of cross-border trade between the two countries. The Amchid\u00e9-Banki border post, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196046,"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":[258,256,21971,1900,377,26685,257,4687,7316,4586,254],"class_list":["post-196045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-balancing","tag-border","tag-cameroon-news","tag-economics","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeriacameroon","tag-security","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\/196045","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=196045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}