{"id":209056,"date":"2025-10-06T07:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-over-5000-residents-flee-to-cameroon-as-boko-haram-invades-borno-community\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T05:38:12","slug":"cameroon-over-5000-residents-flee-to-cameroon-as-boko-haram-invades-borno-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-over-5000-residents-flee-to-cameroon-as-boko-haram-invades-borno-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Over 5,000 Residents Flee to Cameroon As Boko Haram Invades Borno Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Over 5,000 people have reportedly fled to Cameroon after Boko Haram invaded the border town of Kirawa in Borno State on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">According to Reuters, the attack forced residents to abandon homes torched alongside a military barracks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attack in a video, which showed fighters setting ablaze the barracks while chanting &#8220;victory belongs to God&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The district head of the community, Abdulrahman Abubakar, was quoted as saying that residents had been left with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510060075.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>Over 5,000 people have reportedly fled to Cameroon after Boko Haram invaded the border town of Kirawa in Borno State on Thursday. According to Reuters, the attack forced residents to abandon homes torched alongside a military barracks. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attack in a video, which showed fighters setting ablaze the barracks while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209057,"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":[258,256,4264,375,4698,377,7963,5167,4265,11111,257,4288,254],"class_list":["post-209056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko","tag-borno","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-community","tag-flee","tag-haram","tag-invades","tag-news","tag-residents","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\/209056","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=209056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}