{"id":213126,"date":"2025-11-10T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-tchiroma-gives-biya-48-hour-ultimatum-to-release-detainees\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:00:34","slug":"cameroon-tchiroma-gives-biya-48-hour-ultimatum-to-release-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-tchiroma-gives-biya-48-hour-ultimatum-to-release-detainees\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Tchiroma Gives Biya 48-Hour Ultimatum to Release Detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Cameroonian authorities, demanding the immediate release of all people arrested during and after the country&#8217;s disputed presidential election held on October 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Tchiroma, who contested the election and claims he was the rightful winner despite official results declaring President Paul Biya victorious, made the demand in a video circulated on social media on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">He insisted that he would not back down until his people,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511100054.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>Opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary has issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Cameroonian authorities, demanding the immediate release of all people arrested during and after the country&#8217;s disputed presidential election held on October 12. Tchiroma, who contested the election and claims he was the rightful winner despite official results declaring President Paul Biya victorious, made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213127,"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\/00671654:4997906e36da0f3417c65ddc5c361177:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[52837,258,256,7862,4698,377,7160,257,6011,254,52672,9423],"class_list":["post-213126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-48hour","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biya","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-detainees","tag-news","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tchiroma","tag-ultimatum"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671654:4997906e36da0f3417c65ddc5c361177:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213126","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=213126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}