{"id":45355,"date":"2025-03-28T05:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T02:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=45355"},"modified":"2025-03-28T05:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T02:01:43","slug":"militants-kill-12-cameroonian-soldiers-in-attack-near-lake-chad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/militants-kill-12-cameroonian-soldiers-in-attack-near-lake-chad\/","title":{"rendered":"Militants Kill 12 Cameroonian Soldiers in Attack Near Lake Chad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 Cameroonian soldiers were killed Monday night in an attack by militants on the border with Nigeria, according to a statement from the Cameroonian Ministry of Defense.<br \/>\nThe attack also left over a dozen soldiers wounded and occurred in the Lake Chad area near the town of Wulgo, the ministry said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>While no group was initially blamed for the attack, officials later said it was suspected to have been carried out by extremists from the Boko Haram group or its breakaway faction that is loyal to ISIS, The Associated Press reported.<br \/>\nPointing to Boko Haram militants, the ministry cited the \u201cadvanced weaponry they increasingly have at their disposal\u201d and the \u201capparent alliance with powerful transnational criminal entities\u201d as contributing factors to Monday\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 Cameroonian soldiers were killed Monday night in an attack by militants on the border with Nigeria, according to a statement from the Cameroonian Ministry of Defense. The attack also left over a dozen soldiers wounded and occurred in the Lake Chad area near the town of Wulgo, the ministry said Thursday. While &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45356,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45355\/revisions\/45356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}