Clashes between army and anglophone separatists have claimed several lives in the town of Kumba in Cameroon’s troubled Southwest Region, sources said Thursday. “Several people, including civilians, have been killed in Kumba since Monday,” a source close to the town’s medical services told AFP, confirming witness accounts. “These people died during various army operations” after […]
An investigation by Amnesty International experts has gathered credible evidence that it was Cameroonian soldiers depicted in a video carrying out the horrific extrajudicial executions of two women and two young children. While an investigation has now been announced, the Ministry of Communication earlier dismissed video footage of the killings as “fake news”. Extensive analysis […]
Cameroon’s Anglophone regions will participate in presidential polls slated for October 7, 2018. This is according to the country’s electoral organizing body, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM). The said regions – North West and South West – have been restive for months now amid armed exchanges between government forces and secessionists under the banner of the so-called […]
Local elections in Cameroon have been pushed back a year without explanation, according to a statement read out on state radio on Wednesday. “The mandate of municipal councillors has been extended for a period of 12 months from October 15, 2018,” said the decree signed by President Paul Biya, who has been in power for […]
SOBA UK Press Statement No. 3 12th July, 2018 Fellow Sobans, SOBA UK wishes to confirm that the recent elections organised by the UK Splinter group members instructed by Professor Ephraim Ngwafor in Cameroon had nothing to do with the legitimate SOBA UK entity that has been operating for the past 48 years in the […]
Ambazonian Communication Secretary, Hon. Chris Anu has confirmed that France is a key partner of French Cameroun military aggression against and partial occupation of Southern Cameroons. In an audio broadcast released today Thursday the 12th of July 2018, Chris Anu also pointed out that soldiers from Chad and French Cameroun government forces have been killing […]
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday the country will ‘sign up soon’ to a $3 trillion African free-trade agreement. Nigeria is one of Africa’s two largest economies, the other being South Africa. Buhari’s government had refused to join a continental free-trade zone established in March, on the grounds that it wishes to defend its […]
The government of Cameroon has opened an investigation into the authenticity of a video circulating on social media platforms which shows armed men, presumed Cameroonian soldiers, executing two women and their children, accused of being accomplices of the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram. In the video, published Tuesday and seen thousands of times on social […]
Reactions from the ruling and opposition parties in Cameroon have been pouring in after the announcement of the date of the presidential election, set for October 7 this year. Some opposition supporters have criticised the move. “It is difficult to understand that in a democratic country, the President of the Republic expected to be candidate during […]
US President Donald Trump held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday, hours after he fiercely criticised German policy on defence spending and gas imports from Russia. The tone of their remarks when they jointly addressed reporters afterwards appeared businesslike, after Trump had said Germany’s reliance on Russian energy left […]
