{"id":9292,"date":"2023-09-27T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T12:23:25","slug":"cameroon-threatens-prosecution-against-coup-speculators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/9292\/cameroon-threatens-prosecution-against-coup-speculators\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon threatens prosecution against coup speculators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cameroon\u2019s Minister of Communication Ren\u00e9 Emmanuel Sadi has warned against speculation that the country might witness a coup, amid a series of military takeovers in recent months.<\/p>\n

In a statement, he said that anyone who predicted a coup risked being arrested and prosecuted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government therefore urges those concerned to be careful not to draw senseless and preposterous parallels, and to make obscene predictions about the future of Cameroon<\/a> which could amount to calls for the destabilization of the state,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n

Since Gabon\u2019s military seized power from Ali Bongo on August 30, commentators on social and mainstream media platforms have continued to raise the likelihood of a coup in neighbouring Cameroon.<\/p>\n

The 90-year-old President Paul Biya, who survived a coup attempt in 1984, has ruled the Central African country for 41 years.<\/p>\n

His supporters are urging him to run for another term in the 2025 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cameroon\u2019s Minister of Communication Ren\u00e9 Emmanuel Sadi has warned against speculation that the country might witness a coup, amid a series of military takeovers in recent months. In a statement, he said that anyone who predicted a coup risked being arrested and prosecuted. \u201cThe government therefore urges those concerned to be careful not to draw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"BBC","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,33],"tags":[193,1376,1503],"class_list":["post-9292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-africa","category-politics","tag-cameroon","tag-gabon-coup","tag-paul-biya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}