{"id":4646,"date":"2014-08-04T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T04:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2014-08-04T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T04:05:36","slug":"cameroon-moves-to-step-up-fight-against-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-moves-to-step-up-fight-against-boko-haram\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon moves to step up fight against Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yaound\u00e9 (AFP) &#8211; Cameroon&#8217;s president has sent his army chief to the north of the country to beef up the battle against Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>Following a series of cross-border incursions and kidnappings, President Paul Biya said Saturday he was also sending more troops and military supplies to the area.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes ahead of a key US-Africa summit hosted by US President Barack Obama in Washington where the fight against terrorism is expected to top the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last few weeks our forces have made important advances against Boko Haram, but it is a long fight,&#8221; Biya told reporters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cameroon News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/cameroon-moves-step-fight-against-boko-haram-153610824.html\" 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>Yaound\u00e9 (AFP) &#8211; Cameroon&#8217;s president has sent his army chief to the north of the country to beef up the battle against Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram. Following a series of cross-border incursions and kidnappings, President Paul Biya said Saturday he was also sending more troops and military supplies to the area. The announcement comes [&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":[258,256,355,4698,377,1858,357,2018,366,257,2081,254,4692,378],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-fight-against-terrorism","tag-islamist","tag-islamist-group","tag-islamist-group-boko-haram","tag-news","tag-president-paul-biya","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa","tag-yaounde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","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=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/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=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}