Cameroon president Paul Biya says he has successfully pushed the militant group Boko Haram beyond Cameroon’s borders and urgently needs to be re-elected in the October 7 presidential poll so he can rebuild what was destroyed. Biya was in the northern town of Maroua in one of his rare outings from his presidential palace to […]
Cameroon elects its president on October 7 against the backdrop of bloody violence in its two separatist English-speaking regions, which have vowed to not let voting take place. Tensions can be traced back to events a century ago when Britain and France occupied Cameroon, taking over Germany’s major colony in West Africa. Some background: World […]
President Paul Biya, who will seek reelection next week, told supporters Saturday that “a firm hand and dialogue” are needed to quell the violence in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions. Hundreds of civilians and dozens of security forces are understood to have been killed in the majority French-speaking country’s anglophone northwest and southwest this year. In October […]
Nigeria’s women’s affairs minister, Aisha Alhassan resigned from president Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet on Saturday, citing the ruling party’s decision to disqualify her from contesting for the Taraba governorship as one of the reasons for her action. Alhassan, who becomes the second cabinet member to step down this month, added that she would also be leaving […]
Government officials in Cameroon’s strife-torn Anglophone Southwest and Northwest regions on Saturday declared a 48-hour curfew ahead of planned “independence” celebrations by armed separatist forces. “Movement of persons from one sub-division to another within the Northwest region is hereby prohibited for a period of 48 hours from Sept. 30 to Monday Oct. 1, 2018” said […]
Seventeen people including 15 cyclists, one driver and one race commissioner were injured after a coaster bus transporting international cyclists, Honore Yossi, president of Cameroon Cycling Federation said on Saturday. The accident occurred early Saturday at a place called “Memiam” on the Mbalmayo-Zoetele highway, Yossi said. “The 17 victims were immediately transported by ambulances of […]
Fighting between separatists and government forces, along with concerns its stadiums won’t be ready, have left Cameroon facing the possibility Saturday of being stripped of its hosting of next year’s African Cup of Nations soccer tournament. Tournament organizer the Confederation of African Football declined to back the country as host after a two-day meeting of […]
The Southern Cameroons crisis has entered a very critical phase, with journalists now being targeted as a means of hiding crimes against humanity committed in Cameroon’s English-speaking cities and towns. As the government seeks to wrap up things very fast, it is now targeting young male adults and it has, over the last month, ordered […]
The US has implored the government of Cameroon to hold its soldiers to account. The call follows a recent investigation by BBC’s Africa Eye, which revealed Cameroonian soldiers are behind atrocities against civilians in the country. Pentagon spokeswoman Maj Sheryll Klinkel said the US military was working with the State Department to “ensure the government […]
Cameroon is nervously awaiting the first anniversary on Monday of a declaration of independence by its English-speaking minority less than a week before the country plunges into presidential elections. Attacks are occurring daily in the two regions that are home to this French-speaking country’s anglophones, and many say they are afraid. In the worst-affected areas, […]
