Sixteen government employees have been detained in Cameroon for allegedly leaking official documents on social media since the start of the year. In an increasingly common phenomenon, the texts of President Paul Biya’s two most recent nationwide addresses were circulating before he even delivered them. And in March, a confidential presidential memo began circulating on […]
Two Cameroonian soldiers died and four were seriously injured on Friday after a mine exploded in an anglophone region hit by violence between separatists and the government. “A Cameroonian army vehicle went over a mine” in Eyumojock, a town in an English-speaking part of the southwest, a security source told AFP on condition of anonymity. […]
Nestlé has inaugurated a production unit for its range of Nido fortified powdered milk in Douala, Cameroon. The new facility will create 12 additional jobs and has the potential to create 48 more in the coming years. It will have an annual production capacity of more than 5,500 tons and will manufacture Nido Forti Choco as well as continue […]
Upgrading the RN15 over 135 km between Lena and Tibati Construction of Provincial Road 18 over 106 km between Olama and Bigambo Total value: €214 million VINCI subsidiary Sogea-Satom has been awarded two major road building projects in Cameroon for the Public Works Ministry. The first contract, valued at €112 million, covers upgrading a 135 […]
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is today expressing its alarm at continuing forced returns to Nigeria of refugees and asylum-seekers from Cameroon’s Far North Region. Despite UNHCR’s advocacy efforts and engagement with the authorities, 385 Nigerians have been forcibly returned from Cameroon since the beginning of 2018. The majority of them were returned during the […]
In Cameroon, officials say eight villages in the English-speaking northwest have been torched and hundreds of residents have fled amid clashes this week between security forces and separatist rebels. Terence Fukah, a 33-year-old pig farmer, told VOA he fled his village of Ajin on Tuesday as the military responded to an attack by armed men. […]
The Communication Secretary of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, Hon. Chris Anu, today used his first appearance before Southern Cameroonians in the UK to condemn every act of terror against Ambazonian civilians by French Cameroun army soldiers. Addressing 100s of Southern Cameroonians gathered in London for a protest march during the Commonwealth Heads of Government […]
British Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has again stressed the need for the Biya regime to hold talks with the leadership of the Southern Cameroons revolution. The UK’s chief diplomat observed that there was an urgent need for dialogue in solving the political crisis in Southern Cameroons. Boris Johnson made public the position of Her Majesty’s […]
The European Union gave asylum to more than half a million refugees in 2017, its statistics office Eurostat said on Thursday, with Germany taking in more than 60 percent. The number was still down by about a quarter compared with 2016, and followed a major surge of migration in 2015 which has strained the bloc’s […]
Kurdish fighters in Syria say they have arrested a German national accused of being involved in the planning of the September 11, attacks in 2001 in the United States, a report says. “Mohammed Haydar Zammar has been arrested by Kurdish security forces and is now being interrogated in northern Syria,” the Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units […]
