The World Health Organization expert mission to China ended this week without finding the source of the coronavirus that has killed over 2.3 million worldwide. But the team of foreign experts did agree the novel coronavirus likely jumped from bats to an unknown animal species, before being transmitted to humans. It also concluded that it […]
Central African Republic’s army, backed by Russian and Rwandan allies, regained full control on Tuesday of a strategic town near the western border with Cameroon that had been attacked by rebel forces last month, the government spokesman said. The army has been battling a coalition of rebels since the weeks before a disputed Dec. 27 […]
Since its independence in 1960, Cameroon has been facing socio-political issues in the anglophone North West (NW) and South West (SW) regions. In late 2016, local lawyers and teachers mobilised over demands for respect of the region’s Anglophone educational and judicial systems. This escalated into armed confrontations, with the proliferation of non-state armed groups (NSAG) […]
The Nigerian military is currently working with forces from neighboring Cameroon to clear Boko Haram terrorists from the country’s volatile northeast region, the country’s new army chief said Monday. “We are working in tandem with forces from Cameroon to annihilate Boko Haram,” Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru told journalists during an operational visit to troops in northeast […]
On Saturday night, the product tanker Sea Phantom was boarded by pirates about 115 nm off the coast of Cameroon in the Gulf of Guinea. According to Dryad Global, the tanker was making about 13 knots on an easterly course, then took evasive maneuvers. Multinational Maritime Coordination Center (MMCC) Zone D notified the Cameroon and […]
When at least 53 people died in Cameroon in late January after a bus collided with a fuel-laden truck—one of the worst road accidents in the country’s history—few observers would have expected that reactions to the tragedy would include ethnic slurs, mainly on Facebook. They were directed toward members of the Bamileke community, from which […]
Freezing drivers were stranded for hours in traffic jams in Germany and Covid-19 vaccination centres were shut in Britain on Tuesday as Europe was pummelled by the heaviest snow in years. Traffic on a motorway near the German city of Bielefeld was brought to a standstill by heavy snowfall overnight Monday into Tuesday, with some […]
As of 7 February 2021, the number of people killed in the conflict in Cameroon stands at over 20,000. With the International Community maintaining a kind of deliberate and worrying silence, it is impossible to imagine the end of this conflict. The 4 February 2021 report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the Cameroon army […]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) might have provisionally suspended his ban by the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) but Ahmad Ahmad is not out of the woods yet in his bid to regain the presidency of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). He thus faces a race against time with polls scheduled […]
Last September, amidst a bloody civil war between radical Anglophone secessionists and a brutal Francophone dictatorship, 89 courageous young people throughout Cameroon embarked on a journey to transform their country from a unitary authoritarian regime to a two-state democracy. The result was a historic seven-page document entitled “A Resolution for Peace by the Anglophone and […]
