{"id":214739,"date":"2025-11-24T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/gambia-cameroon-opposition-leader-flees-to-gambia-for-safety-after-contested-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:33:20","slug":"gambia-cameroon-opposition-leader-flees-to-gambia-for-safety-after-contested-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/gambia-cameroon-opposition-leader-flees-to-gambia-for-safety-after-contested-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia: Cameroon Opposition Leader Flees to Gambia for &#8216;Safety&#8217; After Contested Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em> Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the Cameroon candidate declared runner-up in October&#8217;s presidential election, is in Banjul, in the Gambia, reportedly for &#8220;humanitarian reasons,&#8221; according to the Gambian government. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Gambian government announced the news on 23 November in a statement attributed to the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The same statement also mentions possible ongoing negotiations between Issa Tchiroma Bakary and the government in Yaound\u00e9, facilitated by the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511240726.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>Issa Tchiroma Bakary, the Cameroon candidate declared runner-up in October&#8217;s presidential election, is in Banjul, in the Gambia, reportedly for &#8220;humanitarian reasons,&#8221; according to the Gambian government. The Gambian government announced the news on 23 November in a statement attributed to the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services. The same statement also mentions possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214740,"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":[258,256,4698,377,19443,7803,6408,7079,257,5675,4672,254,8588],"class_list":["post-214739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-contested","tag-flees","tag-gambia","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-safety","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vote"],"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\/214739","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=214739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}