Nairobi — Investigate and Prosecute Abusive Security Forces Cameroonian soldiers summarily killed at least 10 people and carried out a series of other abuses between April 24 and June 12, during counter-insurgency operations in the North-West region, Human Rights Watch said today. The troops also burned 12 homes, destroyed, and looted health facilities, arbitrarily detained […]
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Cameroon: Boko Haram Launches Raids
Several people, including a soldier, were killed in weekend raids by a Boko Haram group in Cameroon’s Far North region, security and local sources said on Monday. Militants of the group raided Kismatari village of the region on Sunday, killing three civilians, and then proceeded to attack Morgo locality of the region overnight into Monday, […]
Banyo — Traditional rulers in Cameroon are urging villagers to stop farming near Nigeria’s Gashaka-Gumti National Park after a flurry of human-wildlife conflict. Wildlife officials say animals from the park, Nigeria’s largest, have been crossing the Cameroon border to eat crops. Village chiefs say some farmers responded by killing the protected animals and were arrested […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has wrapped up a meeting with Paul Biya, his counterpart in Cameroon, the first port of call on his three nation tour. He reiterated that France would continue to support Africa’s security needs. Macron landed late on Monday on a three-day tour that will also take him to Benin and Guinea-Bissau. […]
Yaounde — French President Emmanuel Macron is on a first trip to Cameroon and will meet Tuesday with long-ruling President Paul Biya to discuss security, economic, and food challenges. Like much of Africa, Cameroon is struggling with rising prices for fuel and grain caused in part by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron […]
President Emmanuel Macron begins a three-nation tour of western African states on Monday, in the first trip to Africa of his new term as he seeks to reboot France’s post-colonial relationship with the continent. Macron kicks off the July 25-28 tour, also the first venture outside Europe of his new mandate, with a visit to […]
Cambridge, UK — ‘This is no longer a struggle for the common man, but instead an economic venture.’ Five years into a deadly separatist conflict in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, hopes of finding a negotiated settlement seem more distant than ever as both the government and secessionist rebels dig in, according to civil society activists. It’s […]
Senegal and Cameroon advanced to the inter-confederation play-off for next year’s women’s World Cup on Sunday after wins over Tunisia and Botswana respectively. Senegal, who lost to Zambia in the quarter-finals at the Cup of Nations following a penalty shoot-out, progressed by the same method at the Stade Mohamed V in Casablanca. The match started […]
Ten-woman Cameroon qualified to play in the inter-continental play-offs for the World Cup next year after beating Botswana 1-0 at the TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in Rabat on Sunday. The Indomitable Lionesses clinched their place thanks to a first-half powerful strike by captain Ajara Nchout at the Stade Prince Moulay Al Hassan in […]
Holders Nigeria kept alive their hopes of retaining their TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations title after narrowly defeating arch-rivals Cameroon 1-0 on Thursday to reach the semi-finals. The Super Falcons also secured their place at the 2023 Women’s World Cup thanks to the victory at the Complexe Sportif Mohamed V in the Moroccan city of Casablanca. The […]
Yaounde, Cameroon — Cameroon’s government has called for emergency food support for more than two million people facing hunger along its northern borders with Chad and Nigeria. At a crisis meeting Monday in Yaoundé, authorities blamed natural disasters, insecurity, and intercommunal clashes in part for causing the food shortage in the nation of 26.5 million […]
Entrepreneurs in Cameroon’s anglophone region have found a way to provide local, fresh fish to customers, despite a lack of a river and an ongoing armed rebellion. Their efforts could be a game changer for Cameroon’s fisheries sector, which faces numerous challenges. Bamenda, the capital of the north-western anglophone region of Cameroon, is landlocked, and […]
Nairobi — Make Findings Public; Ensure Transparency, Accountability Cameroon’s announcement of the opening of an investigation into the killing of nine people in Missong village, North-West region, on June 1, 2022 is an important first step in ensuring accountability around the alleged murder of civilians by government forces, Human Rights Watch said today. Cameroon’s army […]
Yaounde, Cameroon — Lawmakers from Cameroon’s troubled English-speaking regions are calling for more troops to protect officials, government workers, and their families from separatists. Addressing Cameroon’s parliament Wednesday night, the lawmakers said the rebels have abducted hundreds of officials and their family members and killed at least 20 workers in the past month. Cameroon lawmakers […]
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Njobati Sylvie, a resolute restitution activist, could not hide her joy and reprieve after Germany’s Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation made the announcement that Ngonnso has been given the green light to return home. Ngonnso is a mother deity of northwestern Cameroon’s Nso people. She was taken by Kurt von Pavel, a colonial officer in Cameroon, […]
Yaounde, Cameroon — Villagers in a western Cameroon town bordering Nigeria say armed men carried out a series of attacks from June 25 to 27, killing at least 30 people, including five Nigerians, and forcing hundreds to flee. Community leaders in the town of Akwaya say one of two communities fighting over land hired separatist […]
Separatist groups in Cameroon’s Anglophone region have become increasingly more violent, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Monday. “Armed separatist groups are kidnapping, terrorizing, and killing civilians across the English-speaking regions with no apparent fear of being held to account by either their own leaders or Cameroonian law enforcement,” Ilaria Allegrozzi, HRW’s […]