{"id":236680,"date":"2026-06-18T05:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-iswaps-next-frontier-darak-in-northern-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:59:34","slug":"africa-iswaps-next-frontier-darak-in-northern-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/africa-iswaps-next-frontier-darak-in-northern-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: ISWAP&#8217;s Next Frontier &#8211; Darak in Northern Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Located on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad, Darak is valuable to local and national economies &#8211; and to violent extremists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">For over a year, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has been exerting pressure on communities and military positions in northern Cameroon&#8217;s Darak district. The group aims to extend its control beyond the Tumbuma Mantiqa region in northeast Nigeria, which serves as <a href=\"https:\/\/unidir.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/UNIDIR_Boko-Haram_Mapping_an_Evolving_Armed_Constellation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">both<\/a> a useful hideout and a fundraising hub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Located in an isolated part of the Lake Chad Basin,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606170010.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>Located on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad, Darak is valuable to local and national economies &#8211; and to violent extremists. For over a year, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has been exerting pressure on communities and military positions in northern Cameroon&#8217;s Darak district. The group aims to extend its control beyond the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236681,"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\/00571348:e4352293fca997d663846ade42a0b2a6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,54647,5220,51779,257,4282,254],"class_list":["post-236680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-darak","tag-frontier","tag-iswaps","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00571348:e4352293fca997d663846ade42a0b2a6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236680","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=236680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}