{"id":7117,"date":"2013-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/bakassi-residents-to-pay-tax-under-cameroon-sovereignty\/?lang=fr"},"modified":"2013-08-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T00:00:00","slug":"bakassi-residents-to-pay-tax-under-cameroon-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/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":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","region-cameroun","region-nigeria-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-491","item-theme-ajustements-aux-frontieres","item-theme-succession-d-etat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}