{"id":37678,"date":"2020-02-13T09:29:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T14:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geopoliticalmonitor.com\/?p=37678"},"modified":"2020-02-13T09:29:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T14:29:54","slug":"cameroons-authorities-are-being-pressed-on-two-fronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geopoliticalmonitor.com\/cameroons-authorities-are-being-pressed-on-two-fronts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon\u2019s Authorities Are Being Pressed on Two Fronts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Spiking violence has been noted by NGOs and human rights groups monitoring the civil unrest present in Cameroon\u2019s southwest and northwest regions during the run up to country\u2019s local and municipal elections on February 9.<\/p>\n<p>Separatists in particular have taken militant steps to discourage and intimidate civilians located in these regions from participating in the elections, establishing a lockdown from February 7-12. Over 40 candidates who registered at the polls have been abducted by insurgents, undermining main opposition groups such as the Cameroon Renaissance movement (MRC) and Social Democratic Front (SDF) and keeping them from mounting any kind of opposition against the current ruling party, the Cameroon People&#8217;s Democratic Movement (CPDM).<\/p>\n\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separatist militants on one side; Boko Haram on the other. <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":37679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1364],"series":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/www.geopoliticalmonitor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/CameroonHonorGuard.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/www.geopoliticalmonitor.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/seriously-simple-podcasting\/assets\/images\/no-album-art.png","download_link":false,"audio_player":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v15.1.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Separatist militants on one side; 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