As days go by, the Southern Cameroons crisis that has put Cameroon in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons is taking a turn for the worse. Over the last weeks, Southern Cameroonian fighters have changed their strategy from killing soldiers and gendarmes to kidnapping senior administrative officers, in the hope that they will create […]
CALABAR—MFUM, a border community in Ikom Local Government Area of Cross River State has come under attack by soldiers from Cameroon, leaving three fishermen dead and two others with bullet wounds. A resident of the area, Okpa Ekpe, told Vanguard on phone that the attack was an onslaught by soldiers from that country who are […]
Boko Haram carried out 60 suicide attacks in Cameroon in 2017, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms Ursula Mueller has said. The UN deputy relief chief stated this on her arrival in Chad for a two-day visit to see first-hand the humanitarian situation in the country. Mueller would assess efforts of the humanitarian community […]
Nowhere in the world has there been a man whose first job on earth was a ministerial position. But never has there been a man that has failed so spectacularly as the Cameroonian Head of State, Paul Biya. Successive opposition parties in the Francophone dominated country including one created in Southern Cameroons have attempted to […]
Saudi King Salman has sacked the military chief of staff and a host of other commanders in a major shake-up, state media said Monday citing a series of royal decrees. “Termination of the services of General Abdul Rahman bin Saleh al-Bunyan, Chief of Staff,” the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said, adding that Fayyad al-Ruwaili […]
Over 1,000 people were forced to leave their homes and business premises after floods in several areas in Yaoundé. The flooding was caused by heavy rain that began on the 26th February, 2018. The Avenue Kennedy district is the worst hit area. The Francophone dominated National Disaster Management Agency reported that relief centers have been […]
The governor of the state of Washington Jay Inslee confronts US President Donald Trump at the White House over his proposal to arm teachers in order to prevent future mass shootings telling Trump that “we need a little less tweeting here and a little more listening” on the subject of arming schools. Inslee stood and objected to Trump’s controversial […]
An administrative official was snatched over the weekend from one of Cameroon’s restive English-speaking regions in the second such kidnapping in a fortnight, state media reported on Monday. The man was taken by armed men near Batibo, which lies 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of the city of Bamenda, and the same area from which […]
More than 100 girls missing for a week after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria have been kidnapped, the government says for the first time. The authorities in Abuja had previously stopped short of saying the 110 girls were seized during the raid on the Government Girls Science and Technology College […]
Eight executives of the Cameroon Radio and Television (Crtv), have been detained at the Kondengui Central prison in Yaounde. Cameroon Intelligence Report was reliably informed that the police action is linked to the Amadou Vamoulke affair. The former general, Vamoulke has been languishing in Kondengui since July 29, 2016. The eight men and women were […]
