At least one soldier has been killed after militants of the terror group Boko Haram attacked a military outpost in Cameroon’s Far North Region, according to local and security sources. The attack took place overnight Sunday in the Kerawa locality of the region that hosts a military outpost. The militants ambushed and attacked the outpost, […]
Luka Modric and Hugo Lloris feature on a list of “more than 10” top-level Saudi Arabian football transfer targets headed by Lionel Messi and Karim Benzema, a source close to the negotiations has told AFP. Sergio Ramos, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, N’Golo Kante, Angel Di Maria and Roberto Firmino are also among the seasoned World […]
The Tunisian coastguard on Friday recovered the body of a young child thought to have drowned at sea when two vessels carrying migrants sank in the Mediterranean, a journalist working with news agency said. The child’s body, dressed in a pink jumpsuit and grey woollen cap, was discovered during a patrol off the coast of […]
At least four militants of the terror group Boko Haram were killed when Cameroonian troops repelled a coordinated attack launched in the country’s Far North region, military sources said Sunday. The attack took place early Sunday in the Goldavi locality of the region. Heavily armed militants attacked an army post in the locality on several […]
Chad wants to freeze the bank accounts of Cameroon Oil Transportation Company (COTCO) to stop them being accessed by directors of Savannah Energy Plc, escalating a dispute over Savannah’s acquisition of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s oil assets in both countries. Chad, which owns 54% of COTCO, asked lenders managing that company’s accounts “not to act on […]
Germany agreed to provide a grant of €60 million, or about CFA39.3 billion to support development projects in Cameroon between 2023 and 2024. According to the deal signed last May 31 in Berlin by Cameroon’s Minister of Economy, Alamine Ousmane Mey, and the State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development […]
In September 2015, Bertrand Bucuka, a staff sergeant serving in the Cameroon special forces, gathered his military gear and changed into civilian clothes. From there, he traveled by bus for the next three days — heading to the nearest airport. Bucuka served as a staff sergeant in the Cameroon Special Forces. “I knew that if […]
Islamic state on Wednesday claimed responsibility for an attack on a security post in northern Cameroon, the group said in a statement on telegram. Two customs officers, a policeman and a civilian, were killed in the attack that took place on Tuesday at the entrance to the town of Mora in Cameroon’s far north region, […]
An investigation has been launched into the death of a student who died in military custody in Buea, in the south-west region of Cameroon, and the ongoing detention of his roommate. Galax Yves Landry Etoga, the minister in charge of the national gendarmerie, has ordered the probe following the death of Ngule Linus Fontec, a […]
A further 26 people have died in Cameroon’s ongoing cholera outbreak in the past two weeks, taking the overall death toll to 426, a health ministry official said on Thursday. The outbreak was declared in October 2021 and has seen a strong increase in cases since late March of this year after a period of […]
