{"id":226052,"date":"2026-03-05T01:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-belgium-detains-three-suspected-cameroon-separatists-in-war-crimes-probe\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:27:58","slug":"cameroon-belgium-detains-three-suspected-cameroon-separatists-in-war-crimes-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-belgium-detains-three-suspected-cameroon-separatists-in-war-crimes-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Belgium Detains Three Suspected Cameroon Separatists in War Crimes Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Three people have been detained in Belgium as part of a probe into possible crimes against humanity and war crimes in Cameroon linked to the country&#8217;s secessionist rebellion, Belgian prosecutors say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">They are suspected to be leaders of the Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF), a militia fighting for the independence of Cameroon&#8217;s two Anglophone regions in what is a mainly French-speaking nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;Money is reportedly being raised for the armed struggle and for the purchase of arms and ammunition, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603040718.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>Three people have been detained in Belgium as part of a probe into possible crimes against humanity and war crimes in Cameroon linked to the country&#8217;s secessionist rebellion, Belgian prosecutors say. They are suspected to be leaders of the Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF), a militia fighting for the independence of Cameroon&#8217;s two Anglophone regions in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226053,"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":[258,256,685,4698,377,1922,11080,257,5805,17968,254,7846,6618],"class_list":["post-226052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-belgium","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-crimes","tag-detains","tag-news","tag-probe","tag-separatists","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspected","tag-war"],"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\/226052","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=226052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}