Dakar — Release Political Prisoners; Respect Right to Peaceful Assembly Cameroon’s authorities should ensure accountability for their security forces’ crackdown on opposition leaders, supporters, and peaceful protesters in September 2020, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. They should immediately and unconditionally release all those held for expressing their political views or for exercising […]
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Cameroon women’s volleyball team completed a double against Kenya with a deserved 3-1(25-2125-23,15-25 and 25-23) win to retain the African Nations Championships title as the event came to an end Sunday night at Kigali arena, Rwanda. Cameroon had won against Kenya in the first match of pool “B” last Sunday. And with the win, the […]
In recent years, ecologists have been able to confirm the existence of species previously thought to be lost from former parts of their range. For example, in 2020, lowland gorillas were confirmed to persist in central mainland Equatorial Guinea by University of the West of England researchers. This year, Babirusa, a southeast Asian wild pig […]
Exactly 63 years ago, on September 13, 1958, Ruben Um Nyobè was shot by the French army. Perpetrated in the context of a “secret war” that Paris has never recognized, the assassination of this nationalist activist is now mobilizing Cameroonians. Through this anniversary, they are commemorating tens of thousands of victims of the colonial power, […]
Yaounde — The school year in Cameroon starts Monday with hundreds of schools in the troubled western regions reopening their doors for the first time in three to five years. Anglophone separatists previously used threats to keep the schools closed, but some rebels, for the first time, are saying they should be spared from the […]
Yaounde, August 30, 2021: Cameroon is plunged under water every rainy season. Greenpeace Africa is calling on the government to put in place an effective disaster risk management plan. The return of the rains this August has caused several floods in three regions of Cameroon (Littoral, Far North and Adamaoua). Faced with this situation, which […]
The federal government through the ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development is set to begin the repatriation of 322,000 Nigerian refugees from Niger, Cameroon and Chad. The minister, Sadiya Farouq, disclosed this while receiving the draft report from the technical working group on the repatriation of Nigerian refugees in Cameroon in Abuja […]
The proliferation of illegal arms in Cameroon increases violence and insecurity in a country already grappling with violent extremist attacks and a separatist conflict. The African Union Commission’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council estimates at least 120 000 small arms and light weapons in illegal circulation in Cameroon, including revolvers, pistols, rifles, assault rifles and […]
Yaounde — Cameroon has turned public buildings on its northern border with Nigeria into temporary housing for former Boko Haram militants. Hundreds of Boko Haram members have been defecting from the Islamist group, including more than two hundred on Sunday. Cameroon says its center for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, or DDR, in Meri, a northern […]
The 8th session of the Cameroon-Nigeria transborder security committee ongoing in Abuja is seeking ways of containing growing threats along the close to 2,000km border line for inhabitants of both countries to live in tranquillity. Cameroon and Nigeria are two brotherly countries sharing some 2, 000km boundary lines in five regions notably the Far North, […]
Despite government claims that the Anglophone conflict is under control, recent developments suggest otherwise. There’s only one way out. The Anglophone regions’ relatively quiet start to 2021 was shattered in March by an intense series of IED attacks. Marking a new development in the Cameroonian conflict that has simmered for four years, at least one […]
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd) yesterday raised the alarm that secessionist groups in Nigeria and Cameroun were forming alliances to destablise both countries. He disclosed this while speaking at the eight Session of the Cameroon/Nigeria Transborder Security Committee held in Abuja. Monguno also stated that the terrorist groups, Boko Haram […]
Yaounde — Cameroonian authorities are urging thousands of villagers who fled northern Cameroon after a violent conflict between herders and fishers this week to return home. The villagers fled across the border into neighboring Chad after clashes over resources left farms and villages destroyed. Cameroon says the conflict between cattle ranchers and fishermen has displaced […]
Yaounde — Cameroon says its military has killed seven self-proclaimed separatist generals who blocked traffic for a month on roads in the central African state’s English-speaking western regions. The military says during a two-week operation, it recovered 70 vehicles the fighters had seized from civilians and rescued several women and children held hostage in separatist […]
Issa Amang had both his legs amputated after falling ill in 2018, but that did not stop him. With the help of prosthetics, he is back up and not only playing golf but winning. A bacterial meningitis infection might have taken Issa Nlareb Amang’s legs, but it did not stop him from making huge strides […]
President Paul Biya of Cameroon in his capacity as the current Chairperson of the sub regional Heads of State Conference yesterday August 18, 2021, presided over an extraordinary Summit, via video conference, which came up with a 24-point recommendations. The raging Coronavirus pandemic, or betterstill Covid-19, which continues to wreak havoc across the globe, posing […]
Savings and thrift gatherings are ample avenues for women to discuss their issues. Delphine Mokosso belongs to a Yaounde-based all-female ‘njangi’ or savings and thrift group that meets every month. “After collecting savings, dining and wining, members sit back to discuss lighter issues. These include sharing personal challenges, plans to carry out a charity project, […]
At least 11,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled inter-communal clashes between fishermen and herders in Cameroon. They arrived in neighbouring Chad over the weekend, humanitarian organisations have said. The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, in Chad and the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations said those who arrived are settled in different villages […]