{"id":3169,"date":"2014-06-25T11:16:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T04:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2014-06-25T11:16:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T04:16:30","slug":"cameroon-arrests-40-boko-haram-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-arrests-40-boko-haram-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon arrests 40 Boko Haram suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon\u2019s military has arrested 40 suspected Boko Haram militants in the north of the country. Soldiers have also sealed off a market where they suspect Boko Haram may be hiding arms for use in the insurgency over the border in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Nyemeck Pierre, who led the military raid, told VOA that the central government ordered the military action as part of its fight against Boko Haram incursions into Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the duty of the military to filter the population so that enemies do not infiltrate into Cameroon,\u201d he said in French Language.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the matter was complicated because along the border there were Nigerians and Cameroonians \u201cwho belong to the same families and soldiers have to try to distinguish who is a militant&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cameroon News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.punchng.com\/news\/cameroon-arrests-40-b-haram-suspects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon\u2019s military has arrested 40 suspected Boko Haram militants in the north of the country. Soldiers have also sealed off a market where they suspect Boko Haram may be hiding arms for use in the insurgency over the border in Nigeria. Col. Nyemeck Pierre, who led the military raid, told VOA that the central government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,355,1643,379,4698,377,1641,659,257,1642,254,4692],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-boko-haram-incursions-into-cameroon","tag-boko-haram-militants","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-insurgency-over-the-border-in-nigeria","tag-militants","tag-news","tag-nyemeck-pierre","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}