A teacher was gunned down after armed assailants attacked a school in a strife-hit English speaking region of southwest Cameroon, national radio reported Saturday. Sophie Mandengue Maloba, a 42-year-old mother of three, died in the town of Muyuka when three armed men riding motorcycles fired gunshots as they sped through the town, the radio said. […]
Two Cameroonian gendarmes – paramilitary officials – were killed by suspected separatists in the North West region. Local media reported that some gendarmes had been abducted by unknown gunmen early on Saturday. Reports emerged later in the day that the lifeless bodies had been found in the Bali Nyonga area of the restive region riled […]
Suspected jihadists killed dozens of Tuaregs on Mali’s northeastern border with Niger, informed sources said Saturday, in the second such attack in two days. The former Tuareg rebel group MSA and tribal leaders said the massacre occurred Friday, a day after another attack by gunmen on motorbikes had left 12 people dead outside the town […]
US President Donald Trump has stressed the need for Republicans to maintain their majority in the House of Representatives in the upcoming midterm elections; otherwise he would face impeachment from Democrats. “We have to keep the House because if we listen to Maxine Waters, she’s going around saying ‘We will impeach him,’ ” Trump said […]
The Anglophones of Cameroon, 20 per cent of the population, feel marginalised. Their frustrations surfaced dramatically at the end of 2016 when a series of sectoral grievances morphed into political demands, leading to strikes and riots. The movement grew to the point where the government’s repressive approach was no longer sufficient to calm the situation, […]
Kenya has banned its first feature film to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, accusing it of having “clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya, contrary to the law”. Director Wanuri Kahiu said she is “incredibly sorry” to confirm the ban of “Rafiki” (or “Friend” in Kiswahili) by the Kenya Film Classification Board. Her film […]
Boko Haram bombers have killed at least four civilians after fighting broke out on the outskirts of northeast Nigeria’s biggest city, Maiduguri. Media reports said on Friday that the militants were trying to reach the city’s Giwa Barracks, where other militants had been imprisoned, when they were stopped by security forces. Boko Haram rarely attacks […]
The Southern Cameroons crisis has entered a new phase. After the failure of intimidation and attrition, the Yaounde government has decided to roll out a new strategy – making an example of Southern Cameroonians who are in the government’s jails in Yaounde. Ever since the crisis started more than a thousand Southern Cameroonians have been […]
The only option now opens to the UN and the African Union in Southern Cameroons is whether or not to make it worse. No amount of motion of support to Biya, counterfeit elections, feel good rhetoric from Chief V.E.Mukete or “intermittent” killing of Ambazonians is going to impede the Interim Government’s path to victory in […]
Armed men believed to be separatists forced Cameroonian security forces to retreat when the two engaged in exchange of fire on Wednesday in the restive northwest region. According to the BBC Africa Live page, the military was forced to withdraw from the town of Belo located in northwestern Cameroon following heated exchanges. The army have for months […]
