Cameroon: Separatists Attack Police
YAOUNDE — At least 6 armed separatists and a police official have been killed and several people wounded in the southwestern Cameroon English speaking town of Mamfe during an attack on a military post. The…
YAOUNDE — At least 6 armed separatists and a police official have been killed and several people wounded in the southwestern Cameroon English speaking town of Mamfe during an attack on a military post. The…
YAOUNDE — In Cameroon, opposition lawmakers disrupted parliament for the second day in a row Friday as tensions deepen over the government’s handling of the crisis in the country’s anglophone regions. Lawmakers of Cameroon’s main…
YAOUNDE — Two gendarmes were attacked and killed by armed men late Tuesday in the northwestern town of Bamenda, said Cameroon’s government spokesperson Issa Tchiroma. The killings came barely 24 hours after another gendarme was…
NDJAMENA / GAROU BOULAI, CAMEROON — The Central African Economic and Monetary Community reached a key milestone this week. Heads of state meeting in Chad lifted visa requirements for their citizens traveling within the six-member…
DOUALA, CAMEROON — A military court in Cameroon sentenced an opposition leader on Monday to 25 years in prison, his lawyer and Amnesty International said and denounced the trial as politically motivated. The court convicted…
A suicide bomber has killed 13 other people in the restive northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Sunday. The Sunday evening attack also injured five people. Two subsequent suicide bombings injured more than a dozen…
More than 500 people have been swept up in mass arrests following violent demonstrations in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions earlier this month, Amnesty International said on Friday. Troops and attack helicopters opened fire on protesters calling…
BUEA/BAMENDA, CAMEROON — Cameroon deployed heavily armed police and soldiers across the central African nation’s restless English-speaking regions on Sunday to block protests called by activists including groups demanding independence, witnesses said. The demonstrations —…
Cameroon has deported 100,000 Nigerian refugees in the hope of stemming the spread of terrorist group Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch (HWR) said on Wednesday. The group said in its new report that the deportation…
Super Eagles stars, William Troost-Ekong and Wilfred Ndidi are pleased with the point gained from their away fixture against Cameroon in a 2018 World Cup qualifier on Monday. The pair posted good performances as the…