{"id":56162,"date":"2025-11-04T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cameroonian-gov-t-vows-to-restore-order-amid-opposition-s-call-for-civil\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:00:51","slug":"cameroonian-gov-t-vows-to-restore-order-amid-opposition-s-call-for-civil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cameroonian-gov-t-vows-to-restore-order-amid-opposition-s-call-for-civil\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroonian gov&#8217;t vows to restore order amid opposition&#8217;s call for civil disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadi, also the government spokesperson, said violent protests following the country&#8217;s Oct. 12 presidential election had led to the destruction and looting of property.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those responsible for the disturbances, caught in the act of committing their crimes, have been arrested,&#8221; Sadi said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was released as a civil disobedience campaign launched by the opposition left much of the Central African nation&#8217;s streets largely deserted at the start of the working week on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who claimed to have won the election, had called for a three-day nationwide &#8220;ghost town&#8221; protest from Monday to Wednesday, encouraging people to stay at home and suspend all activities as a form of peaceful resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Sadi warned that such calls for civil disobedience are likely to &#8220;sow disorder and insecurity,&#8221; and urged residents to ignore them.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon&#8217;s president-elect, Paul Biya, will be sworn in this week.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-97225\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/f4749267-a114-43cd-ad00-77509689bea4.jpg\" alt=\"Cameroon\u2019s President Paul Biya, the world\u2019s oldest serving head of state, was recently re-elected for an eighth consecutive term, extending his more than four-decade rule. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon&#8217;s Minister of Communication Rene Emmanuel Sadi on Monday condemned violent post-election protests and acts of civil disobedience, vowing that effective measures will be taken to restore order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000097227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000097227,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f4749267-a114-43cd-ad00-77509689bea4.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f4749267-a114-43cd-ad00-77509689bea4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f4749267-a114-43cd-ad00-77509689bea4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f4749267-a114-43cd-ad00-77509689bea4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f4749267-a114-43cd-ad00-77509689bea4.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f4749267-a114-43cd-ad00-77509689bea4.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000097227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56162"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56162"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}