Plan International is saddened by the tragic shooting incident at the Mother Francisca Bilingual Academy in Kumba, Southwest Region of Cameroon that left a number of young children dead and wounded on Saturday, 24 October. This is a senseless and cold-blooded act of terror directed against children. We strongly condemn it as being outrageous and […]
A 12-year-old girl died on Sunday from wounds sustained when gunmen stormed a school in the South West Region of Cameroon on Saturday and opened fire on the children, taking the death toll to seven with 12 injured. The attack on the school, in the region where separatist insurgents have been battling government forces since […]
Cameroon’s long drawn-out, neglected Anglophone crisis has again come under a harsh global spotlight with the killing of at least six school children in the country’s troubled southwest region. On Saturday (Oct. 24), unidentified men armed with assault rifles stormed the campus of Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy in Kumba, about 45 miles from commercial […]
Air strikes by Damascus regime ally Russia killed 78 Turkey-backed rebels in northwestern Syria on Monday, a monitor said, in the bloodiest surge in violence since a truce almost eight months ago. More than 90 others were wounded when Russian warplanes targeted a training camp of the Faylaq al-Sham faction in the Jabal Duwayli area […]
Nfon Mukete Ekoko IV, Nfon of Kumba & Paramount Ruler of the Bafaws says divine retribution will catch up with those who attacked, killed, and wounded students at a school in Kumba. In a statement released to the people of Kumba, the Nfon’s Palace regretted the act of “utter barbarism that took place in Fiango, […]
Vice President Mike Pence campaigned on Sunday despite a Covid-19 outbreak among his aides and President Donald Trump claimed progress as the United States set records for daily infections, prompting Democratic challenger Joe Biden to accuse Trump of surrendering to the pandemic. With nine days to go before the Nov. 3 election, the White House […]
Hundreds of Southern Cameroonians held a peaceful procession through the streets of Kumba town and ended at the site of a school attacked on Saturday that the Ambazonia Interim Government has blamed on Cameroon government forces. The Southern Cameroonians in the Meme County carried placards denouncing the attack, while calling for an end to war […]
MASSACRE OF SIX CHILDREN AT MOTHER FRANCISCA BILLINGUAL ACADEMY, KUMBA Yesterday, 24 October 2020, an act of despicable barbarism was perpetrated upon our people in Kumba, Meme County, Southern Cameroons. Eyewitnesses attest that at about 11:30am, armed men entered the Mother Francisca International Billingual Academy, Fiango Kumba and opened fire on students. Six students were […]
Former US president Barack Obama and his vice president Joe Biden, the current Democratic candidate for the Nov. 3 presidential election, have accused Donald Trump of a massive screw-up in his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Their remarks came on Saturday as a record number of 55,537 new cases were reported and 562 died across […]
The world is once more playing spectator to the gruesome acts committed by some unidentified armed men in Cameroon. Yesterday, armed men stormed the premises of a prestigious bilingual school in Kumba, the southwest region’s biggest city, and left a trail of death and destruction. Some five students were killed in cold blood, some of […]
