{"id":4895,"date":"2014-08-20T14:44:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2014-08-20T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:45:23","slug":"cameroon-closes-all-borders-with-nigeria-over-ebola-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-closes-all-borders-with-nigeria-over-ebola-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon closes all borders with Nigeria over Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YAOUND\u00c9 (AFP) &#8211; Cameroon has closed all its land, sea and air borders with Nigeria in a move to help prevent the spread of the Ebola virus, the government spokesman told AFP Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All borders (land, sea and air) between Cameroon and Nigeria are closed. Our thinking is that it is better to act preventively rather than have to heal&#8221; later those who may fall ill, said Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who is Cameroon&#8217;s communications minister&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cameroon News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/latestnews\/Cameroon-closes-all-borders-with-Nigeria-over-Ebola-outbreak\" 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\u00c9 (AFP) &#8211; Cameroon has closed all its land, sea and air borders with Nigeria in a move to help prevent the spread of the Ebola virus, the government spokesman told AFP Monday. &#8220;All borders (land, sea and air) between Cameroon and Nigeria are closed. Our thinking is that it is better to act preventively [&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":[258,256,4698,377,3657,1111,1110,257,254,1112,4692],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-closes-all-borders-with-nigeria","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-virus","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","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=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/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=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}