{"id":206269,"date":"2025-09-04T18:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-they-left-boko-haram-now-the-real-struggle-begins-at-home-in-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T18:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:11:23","slug":"cameroon-they-left-boko-haram-now-the-real-struggle-begins-at-home-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-they-left-boko-haram-now-the-real-struggle-begins-at-home-in-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: They Left Boko Haram, Now the Real Struggle Begins At Home in Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">M\u00e9m\u00e9, Cameroon \u2014 &#8220;Forgiveness is not weakness. It is how we survive together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">On a humid evening in early July in the village of M\u00e9m\u00e9, in Cameroon&#8217;s Far North Region, a small group of villagers sat in silence around a flickering fire. Their faces were tight with unease. Among them was a young woman whose brother had just returned after five years in the grip of Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Some villagers averted their eyes. Others whispered behind cupped hands. Can he be trusted? Will he bring the violence&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509040002.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>M\u00e9m\u00e9, Cameroon \u2014 &#8220;Forgiveness is not weakness. It is how we survive together.&#8221; On a humid evening in early July in the village of M\u00e9m\u00e9, in Cameroon&#8217;s Far North Region, a small group of villagers sat in silence around a flickering fire. Their faces were tight with unease. Among them was a young woman whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206270,"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":[258,256,8082,4264,4698,377,4265,8849,7781,257,6884,254,11137],"class_list":["post-206269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-begins","tag-boko","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-haram","tag-home","tag-left","tag-news","tag-real","tag-south-africa-today","tag-struggle"],"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\/206269","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=206269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}