Algeria’s constitutional council has dismissed reports that it has met to decide whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is fit for office, state radio said on Thursday, after the army called for his removal and allies deserted the ailing leader. The report came two days after the Algerian army’s powerful chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Gaed […]
A new report from Human Rights Watch says Cameroon’s military has killed scores of people and burned down hundreds of homes in its campaign against separatists in the country’s Anglophone regions. Cameroon is rejecting the report as grossly biased. Government spokesperson Rene Emmanuel Sadi read a communique on Cameroon state radio CRTV, saying troops fighting separatists in […]
Progress remains slow for the construction of the highway connecting Cameroon’s two largest cities, Douala and Yaoundé. The two cities are some 202km apart and the new route is intended to improve transport between Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, and its key commercial city and port, Douala. The existing National Road No3 linking the two cities currently […]
CASH strapped humanitarian organisations are struggling to cater for about 500 000 civilians displaced after clashes by the military and pro-English separatists in Cameroon. The skirmishes have left scores dead in the Central African country. Conflict in the Northwest and Southwest regions emanates from grievances that the government dominated by French speakers is marginalising English […]
The conflict ignited almost three years ago; when minority English speakers in the Ambazonia region of Africa’s Cameroon started to speak out against the onslaught of persecution and discrimination of the dominant French-speaking government. Only the response from the leadership was fast and furious. The situation has since escalated into a bloody battle of linguistics. “The English-speaking, […]
Comrades we have already won a big part of the war. What is left is the final battle to chase the terrorists out of our land. If we are still here it is due to the shallowness and emptiness in the quality of youths we have in the diaspora. The youths at home have stood […]
Joseph Desire Job was not the most outgoing person both on and off the pitch. But the Cameroon international knew how to get the job done. No more so than in the Carling Cup final against Bolton Wanderers when he scored the opener after only a couple of minutes and then won a penalty shortly […]
Government forces in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions have killed scores of civilians, used indiscriminate force, and torched hundreds of homes over the past six months, Human Rights Watch said today. Armed separatists have assaulted and kidnapped dozens of people during the same period, executing at least two men, amid intensifying violence and growing calls for secession of the […]
On 1 March, in the case between 12 Cameroonian separatist leaders and the Federal Government of Nigeria, Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court in Abuja ruled that the forced deportation of the 12 leaders and 39 other Anglophones from Taraba State was illegal and unconstitutional. The judge said that irrespective of whether they posed a […]
There are reports out of Cameroon that say the U.S. has sanctioned President Paul Biya’s government and accused Yaounde of committing atrocities in the ongoing anglophone crisis. The sanctions are also said to be in place for the arrest and detention of opposition leader, Maurice Kamto. The sanctions are said to affect more than twenty […]
