{"id":247648,"date":"2026-10-20T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-online-fraud-is-becoming-a-gateway-to-human-trafficking-in-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:30:18","slug":"cameroon-online-fraud-is-becoming-a-gateway-to-human-trafficking-in-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-online-fraud-is-becoming-a-gateway-to-human-trafficking-in-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: Online Fraud Is Becoming a Gateway to Human Trafficking in Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Criminal networks exploit job seekers&#8217; aspirations, turning promises of employment abroad into schemes involving detention, extortion and forced recruitment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">The discovery in September of 15 underage girls in a barricaded compound in Yaound\u00e9&#8217;s Essos neighbourhood, followed days later by 20 people (including two children) in a <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.allafrica.com\/stories\/202609070728.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">basement<\/a> in Ngousso, has reignited concerns about human trafficking in Cameroon. The two mixed-use neighbourhoods in the capital&#8217;s northeast are home to working- and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610200405.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Criminal networks exploit job seekers&#8217; aspirations, turning promises of employment abroad into schemes involving detention, extortion and forced recruitment. The discovery in September of 15 underage girls in a barricaded compound in Yaound\u00e9&#8217;s Essos neighbourhood, followed days later by 20 people (including two children) in a basement in Ngousso, has reignited concerns about human trafficking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247649,"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":[258,256,4698,377,8666,31198,3575,257,6849,254,6615],"class_list":["post-247648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-fraud","tag-gateway","tag-human","tag-news","tag-online","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trafficking"],"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\/247648","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=247648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}