{"id":1272,"date":"2013-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/bakassi-residents-to-pay-tax-under-cameroon-sovereignty\/"},"modified":"2016-07-01T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:16:29","slug":"bakassi-residents-to-pay-tax-under-cameroon-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/bakassi-residents-to-pay-tax-under-cameroon-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakassi residents to pay tax under Cameroon sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon has formally taken full sovereignty of the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula, ceded by Nigeria in 2008. The territory was handed over after an International Court of Justice ruling, ending years of border skirmishes.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year UN-backed transition period exempted residents in the area, many of them Nigerian fishermen, from paying tax. Now the Nigerians must also apply for a residence permit or take up Cameroonian citizenship if they wish to remain.<\/p>\n<p>Read further on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-23710733\">BBC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameroon has formally taken full sovereignty of the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula, ceded by Nigeria in 2008. The territory was handed over after an International Court of Justice ruling, ending years of border skirmishes. The five-year UN-backed transition period exempted residents in the area, many of them Nigerian fishermen, from paying tax. Now the Nigerians must [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-cameroon","region-nigeria","type-news-articles","item-year-491","item-theme-border-changes","item-theme-state-succession"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3560,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/3560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}