{"id":215574,"date":"2025-12-03T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-prominent-opposition-leader-dies-in-custody\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:59:57","slug":"cameroon-prominent-opposition-leader-dies-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-prominent-opposition-leader-dies-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Prominent Opposition Leader Dies in Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Investigate Possible Negligence in Care of Anicet Ekane<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The death in custody of a prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/cameroon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon<\/a> opposition leader, Anicet Ekane, should be impartially, promptly, and effectively investigated, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"121\">Ekane, 74, the leader of the African Movement for New Independence and Democracy (Mouvement africain pour la nouvelle ind\u00e9pendance et la d\u00e9mocratie, MANIDEM) party, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckg9204y4w5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died<\/a> on December 1, 2025, at the State Defense Secretariat (Secr\u00e9tariat d&#8217;\u00c9tat \u00e0 la&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512030119.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>Nairobi \u2014 Investigate Possible Negligence in Care of Anicet Ekane The death in custody of a prominent Cameroon opposition leader, Anicet Ekane, should be impartially, promptly, and effectively investigated, Human Rights Watch said today. Ekane, 74, the leader of the African Movement for New Independence and Democracy (Mouvement africain pour la nouvelle ind\u00e9pendance et la [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215575,"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":[258,256,4698,377,11828,6868,7079,257,5675,22489,254],"class_list":["post-215574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-custody","tag-dies","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-prominent","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\/215574","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=215574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}