Separatist militias have stepped up attacks and abductions in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions ahead of parliamentary and council elections likely to hand a sweeping victory to the party that has ruled the central African nation since 1985. Anglophone armed groups last month called for a lock-down of the Southwest and Northwest regions and militants have […]
Reports reaching Cameroon Concord News Group indicate that Prof. Maurice Kamto who is on a tour of Europe and North America, has avoided meeting Ambazonians in the city of Toronto in Canada. The winner of the 2018 presidential election in Cameroon had said he would meet with separatists if he became the president of Cameroon. […]
At least 11 civilians had been killed in two separate attacks in Niger, which is struggling to contain a wave of Takfiri terrorists’ violence, officials said Saturday. In one attack on Friday, members of the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group killed six civilians in Bosso district in the southeast region of Diffa bordering Chad and […]
Cameroon’s first parliamentary and municipal elections in seven years are due on February 9, despite jihadist attacks in the north and a bloody separatist struggle in the west. Maurice Kamto, who mounted the strongest challenge to President Paul Biya’s rule in 2018, has kept his party out of the vote because of the violence. Once […]
Economic activity is at a standstill in Northwest and Southwest Cameroon, as separatist fighters have imposed a travel ban and vowed that local and parliamentary elections set for Sunday will not take place. Civilians say they do not believe the government will be able to protect them from separatists who have been abducting candidates, election […]
Armed separatists continue abductions and killings Army burned dozens of houses, Amnesty remote sensing analysis confirms more than 50 in two areas As of last December, 679,000 people were displaced A surge in violence meted out by the Cameroon military in recent weeks, has led to dozens of killings and thousands of new displacements in […]
Several supporters of Maurice Kamto, the Cameroonian opposition leader who claims he won the October 2018 presidential election and that long-serving President Paul Biya stole his victory, have been arrested for campaigning for a total boycott of Sunday’s local and parliamentary elections. The Cameroon Peoples Party is also calling for a total boycott. Both parties […]
Cameroon national borders will be closed ahead of general elections polling day on Sunday, according to an order by the country’s minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji that is made public Friday afternoon. “National borders shall be closed 48 hours to polling day. They will be reopened the following day after voting,” according to […]
Long-delayed elections are due to take place in Cameroon on Sunday, but in the country’s violence-torn English-speaking areas, the fear is almost palpable. “Everyone is holed up at home,” a civil servant said in Buea, capital of the Southwest Region, one of two provinces gripped by bloody separatist violence. Ahead of polling, the streets were […]
US President Donald Trump on Friday fired two of the highest profile witnesses in his impeachment probe, sparking accusations that he is on a campaign of revenge. Trump recalled his ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, just hours after Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a decorated soldier who worked at the National Security Council, was ordered […]
