{"id":205090,"date":"2025-08-20T16:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-all-of-africa-today-august-20-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:21:56","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-august-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-all-of-africa-today-august-20-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; August 20, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><strong>Burkina Faso Expels Top UN Official Over Child Conflict Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"116\">Burkina Faso&#8217;s military junta expelled the UN&#8217;s top official, Carol Flore-Smereczniak, over a report about children caught up in the jihadist conflict.\u00a0 Flore-Smereczniak was declared &#8220;persona non grata&#8221; because of her role in drafting the report that\u00a0<a class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" href=\"https:\/\/digitallibrary.un.org\/record\/4080452\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">came out in March<\/a>.\u00a0The report revealed more than 2,000 cases of child recruitment, killings, sexual violence and abuse attributed to Islamist insurgents, government soldiers, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508200102.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>\u00a0 Burkina Faso Expels Top UN Official Over Child Conflict Report Burkina Faso&#8217;s military junta expelled the UN&#8217;s top official, Carol Flore-Smereczniak, over a report about children caught up in the jihadist conflict.\u00a0 Flore-Smereczniak was declared &#8220;persona non grata&#8221; because of her role in drafting the report that\u00a0came out in March.\u00a0The report revealed more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,8060,377,257,254,6637],"class_list":["post-205090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-august","tag-cameroon-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205090","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=205090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}