{"id":212085,"date":"2025-10-31T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-opposition-leader-flees-as-un-france-warn-against-repression\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:35:07","slug":"cameroon-opposition-leader-flees-as-un-france-warn-against-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-opposition-leader-flees-as-un-france-warn-against-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Opposition Leader Flees As UN, France Warn Against Repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>Reports suggest that Cameroon&#8217;s opposition leader, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, has fled his residence in the northern city of Garoua amid intensifying post-election protests, violent crackdowns, and threats of prosecution.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Sources say Bakary secretly crossed into Nigeria through the northern Nigerian city of Yola and was later airlifted to an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">A foreign journalist based in Yaound\u00e9 last night told Daily Trust. that Tchiroma&#8217;s house is being protected by the population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;Another&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510310097.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>Reports suggest that Cameroon&#8217;s opposition leader, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, has fled his residence in the northern city of Garoua amid intensifying post-election protests, violent crackdowns, and threats of prosecution. Sources say Bakary secretly crossed into Nigeria through the northern Nigerian city of Yola and was later airlifted to an undisclosed location. A foreign journalist based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212086,"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\/00670684:1b0ce8fb2d7505004e29bc6edc90c908:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,7803,4960,7079,257,5675,10834,254,12313],"class_list":["post-212085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-flees","tag-france","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-repression","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670684:1b0ce8fb2d7505004e29bc6edc90c908:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212085","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=212085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}