{"id":222226,"date":"2026-01-29T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-in-shock-after-suspected-separatist-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:10:26","slug":"cameroon-in-shock-after-suspected-separatist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-in-shock-after-suspected-separatist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon in Shock After Suspected Separatist Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>Eight children were killed in an attack on a remote village in Cameroon&#8217;s North West has shocked the nation. But there appears no end in sight to the separatist conflict in the Anglophone regions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Saidu Afiyatu&#8217;s journey from\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/cameroon\/t-67210591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cameroon&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0capital, Yaounde back to his village in Gidado in the North West region, ended in unimaginable horror.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">On the morning of January 14, he returned to find his house burnt to the ground and two of his brothers murdered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;I never ever suspected a day like this would&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601290108.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>Eight children were killed in an attack on a remote village in Cameroon&#8217;s North West has shocked the nation. But there appears no end in sight to the separatist conflict in the Anglophone regions. Saidu Afiyatu&#8217;s journey from\u00a0Cameroon&#8217;s\u00a0capital, Yaounde back to his village in Gidado in the North West region, ended in unimaginable horror. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222227,"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\/00660147:fb86f64933fb6824a46d4fa9ad60f3d5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,1398,4698,377,257,13742,7985,254,7846],"class_list":["post-222226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attack","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-news","tag-separatist","tag-shock","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspected"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660147:fb86f64933fb6824a46d4fa9ad60f3d5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222226","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=222226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}