{"id":4500,"date":"2014-07-28T15:48:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T08:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2014-07-28T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T08:48:33","slug":"boko-haram-abducts-cameroon-politicians-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/boko-haram-abducts-cameroon-politicians-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram abducts Cameroon politician&#8217;s wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cameroonian military says members of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram have abducted the wife of the country&#8217;s deputy prime minister in the northern Cameroonian town of Kolofata.<\/p>\n<p>A local religious leader and mayor was also abducted from the same town.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, at least five people in northern Nigeria were killed in a blast &#8211; residents suspect Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram has stepped up cross-border attacks into Cameroon in recent weeks, as the army was deployed to the region.<\/p>\n<p>Militants have kidnapped foreign nationals in northern Cameroon before, including a French family and Chinese workers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cameroon News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28509530\" 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>The Cameroonian military says members of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram have abducted the wife of the country&#8217;s deputy prime minister in the northern Cameroonian town of Kolofata. A local religious leader and mayor was also abducted from the same town. Separately, at least five people in northern Nigeria were killed in a blast [&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":[3271,258,256,355,4698,377,3269,3272,792,257,3270,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroonian-military","tag-kolofata","tag-militant-group-boko-haram","tag-news","tag-nigerian-militant-group-boko-haram","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","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=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/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=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}