Catholic Bishops in Cameroon are calling on President Paul Biya to begin a dialogue to find a sustainable solution to the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon. Since 2016, English speakers in the Central African country have been protesting against what they say is gross marginalization by the Francophone-dominated administration. They have also been complaining about the […]
An ambush on a joint French Cameroun army and Gendarmerie patrol has left several soldiers dead, a Biya regime official has said, as fears increase that the Southern Cameroons crisis is transforming into a full scale war. Three Anglophone troops were among the dead, according to a Cameroon Concord News file citing Cameroon military officials. […]
At least 18 French Cameroun government soldiers were killed in separate clashes with the Southern Cameroons self defense forces in Azi, Lebialem County, reports said. A member of the Red Dragons of Lebialem noted that the offensives in the Lebialem County were launched to counter what he described as “intensifying” French Cameroun military attacks. Our […]
Despite warnings, Nigerian refugees and asylum-seekers who fled Boko Haram violence continue to be returned from Cameroon, the United Nations refugee agency has said, underscoring the need to accord international protection to those in need. “We appeal once again to the authorities in Cameroon to refrain from further forced returns and to ensure protection to those fleeing […]
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. […]
