State-owned Cameroon Radio Televison (CRTV) in the restive South West region has reported of security threats from persons believed to be separatists. According to a letter written by CRTV regional station manager, workers needed reinforced security especially in the wake of a threatening call to an official at Mt. Cameroon FM. The letter addressed to the Governor […]
The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 82 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Adamu Baba Abubakar, at the instruction of the Chief of Army Staff(COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, held an elaborate security stakeholders meeting on the 27th of February, 2018 at the 245 Reconnaissance Battalion at Ikom, Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State. […]
A worker of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and five other education workers have been killed in an attack in the Central African Republic. The UN agency said in a statement on Wednesday that the attack was carried out on Sunday while the team was traveling near the northeastern town of Markounda near the border […]
Hope Hicks, a top aide to US President Donald Trump, has become the latest in the administration to announce her resignation. The communications director who is Trump’s longest-serving aide and one of his most trusted confidante announced her resignation on Wednesday. Hicks said she would quit a day after she testified before a Congressional intelligence […]
Cameroon has begun deploying special forces in the two English-speaking regions in the country to deal with recent attacks on military and government officials, the defense minister said on Wednesday. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Joseph Beti Assomo, said the deployment of the security personnel, who are from Multipurpose Intervention Group of the National Gendarmerie (GPIGN) […]
Cameroon’s minister of communication, Issa Tchiroma, is very likely to be arrested one of these days. The government spokesperson who has been a mouthpiece for Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, is facing a long jail time as his name has appeared among those who are being accused of embezzling funds and misusing fuel coupons at the […]
Nigerian authorities have released two Cameroonian separatists who were detained by the police last week. Five members of the Ambazonia separatist movement, a Cameroonian group seeking independence from the Francophone country, were detained at an Abuja police station last Wednesday. Before then, they had been detained at a secret facility by Nigeria’s intelligence agencies. The […]
The Nigerian security apparatus is doing all it takes to rescue the over 100 schoolgirls abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in the northeastern Yobe State on February 19, 2018. The presidency reported that the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) chief, Chief of Air Staff Abubakar Sadique had relocated to Yobe State to personally superintend the […]
At least two Nigerian soldiers have been killed and four injured in an ambush by Takfiri militants from the Boko Haram terrorist group in northeastern Nigeria. An unnamed military officer said on Tuesday that the attack on Monday happened as soldiers were traveling between the towns of Biu and Damboa in the northeastern state of Borno. “Our men fell […]
Fifteen people have been killed in a resurgence of violence in DR Congo’s troubled Kasai region blamed on a suspected militia, a local leader said Tuesday. “Kamwina Nsapu militiamen arrived in the administrative center of Lombelu (on Monday) and made a surprise attack on an army combat patrol,” Andre Kapiola, Lombelu sector chief in Kasai […]
