{"id":44721,"date":"2026-07-07T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/07\/07\/love-deception-and-the-real-lives-of-nigerias-romance-fraudsters\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:01:57","slug":"love-deception-and-the-real-lives-of-nigerias-romance-fraudsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/07\/07\/love-deception-and-the-real-lives-of-nigerias-romance-fraudsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Love, deception and the real lives of Nigeria&rsquo;s romance fraudsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In tonight&rsquo;s edition,\u00a0France pulls all of its diplomats out of Burkina Faso in a tit-for-tat move after Ougadougou cut ties with Paris last month. Also, in Tanzania, young people are planning on taking to the streets for an anti-government protest on Tuesday. And Lagos&rsquo;s Yahoo Boys are behind a lucrative but heartbreaking industry of online love scams:\u00a0 after his mother was sucked in, journalist Carlos Barragan uncovered a complex and uncomfortable web of loneliness, deceit, and betrayal.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In tonight&rsquo;s edition,\u00a0France pulls all of its diplomats out of Burkina Faso in a tit-for-tat move after Ougadougou cut ties with Paris last month. Also, in Tanzania, young people are planning on taking to the streets for an anti-government protest on Tuesday. And Lagos&rsquo;s Yahoo Boys are behind a lucrative but heartbreaking industry of online &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-44721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}