Hundreds of militants have killed 71 soldiers in an attack on a remote military camp in Niger near the border with Mali, an army spokesman says, in the deadliest raid against the Nigerien military in living memory. Militants with links to the Daesh Takfiri group and al-Qaeda have mounted increasingly lethal attacks across West Africa’s Sahel […]
Eleven-year-old Mackjourney goes to a secret school in Cameroon. When his family recently fled a separatist rebellion in the country’s English-speaking regions, they thought they had found a place where he could go to school in safety. But that has turned out not to be the case as the school he attends in Douala, the […]
Seven people were killed and 21 children and young adults were kidnapped in yet another spree of devastating Boko Haram attacks on mainly-Christian villages in Far North Cameroon in December. The murderous rampage in Mayo Sava district began on 1 December, just a month after a spate of similar attacks. Gunmen opened fire on mourners gathered […]
Cameroon’s electoral body Elections Cameroon (Elecam) published late Monday the provisional lists of political parties to run for legislative and municipal elections scheduled next year. A total of 470 candidate lists were submitted by 35 political parties. 451 lists have been accepted, according to a statement of Elecam. Candidates of the ruling party, Cameroon People’s […]
Cameroon has settled on a local agency to manage its Douala seaport container terminal from next month after being caught up in a frenetic battle between French and Swiss interests to run the facility. Cyrus Ngo’o, General Manager of the Port Authority of Douala (PAD) announced on Monday that RTC (“Regie du Terminal a Conteneur”) […]
US presidential candidate Joe Biden “won’t be running for reelection” if he wins the 2020 race, says his advisor, citing the Democratic frontrunner’s age. An adviser to the former vice president’s campaign told Politico on Wednesday that, “If Biden is elected, he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be […]
A big crowd of protesters have marched through central Algiers to demand Thursday’s presidential election be cancelled, chanting that they would not vote in a poll they regard as a charade. The protesters chanted on Wednesday “No election tomorrow” and held up banners reading “You have destroyed the country” as riot police stood blocking roads […]
Southern Cameroons Vice President Dabney Yerima has told leaders of the South Africa Communist Party that the French Cameroun military has killed more than 22,000 Ambazonians in his country and has brought it to a standstill noting that Southern Cameroonians in Ground Zero have been weakened by 4 years of war. Appealing for more international […]
A major newspaper outlet in Nigeria says Muhammadu Buhari did not deserve the title of president, they have thus reverted to referring to the him as General Muhammadu Buhari. The Punch group of newspapers said its decision was allied to recent disregard for human rights and attendant repression by the government. The most recent case […]
Boko Haram militants have killed at least 275 people this year in Cameroon’s Far North region despite government claims back in January that the Islamic extremist group had waned in the area, Amnesty International said Wednesday. More than 80 percent of those victims between January and November were civilians, the international human rights group said […]
