At least 11 people have been wounded in an attack on the convoy of the governor of the English-speaking region of southwestern Cameroon, sources said Tuesday. Armed men attacked the convoy of South West governor Bernard Okalia Bilai, who was travelling with a military escort from the regional capital Buea to Kumba, about 70 kilometres […]
There was a time when Cameroon was considered to be one of the most generous refugee-hosting countries in the world. For almost 40 years, it took in hundreds of thousands of refugees who had fled persecution and armed conflicts in countries such as the Central African Republic, Chad, and Nigeria. But this was prior to […]
The Cameroonian army said Monday that it has intercepted a boat carrying “mercenaries” in the high sea off Idenau in the southwest region of the African country. “They were intercepted by Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR). There were about 200 of them with five different nationalities including Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Mali etc.,” the army said in […]
Nigeria had more than 70 candidates for president when campaigning began for Saturday’s elections. But only those from the two main parties – President Muhammadu Buhari and former vice president Atiku Abubakar – have a real shot at leading Africa’s most populous nation. Buhari, 76, made history in 2015 as the first person to democratically […]
Dear President Paul Biya, For almost three years, I have been thinking of writing a very private mail to you, but given the administrative challenges and stories of you never replying to letters, especially those that contain ideas that are not music to your ears, I have opted to talk to you through an open […]
Now after UN Secretary General Guterres bragged again, this time in French, about his talks with Biya’s government, Cameroon forces have burned down the hospital in Kumba in the Anglophone Southwest Region. The UN usually calls attacks on medical facilities a war crime but as we have seen, Biya’s Cameroon is a special case for […]
Things are falling apart for the Southern Cameroons revolution and the members of the Ambazonian Interim Government can no longer read from the same script. We of the Cameroon Concord News Group recently rejected the resignation of Secretary Chris Anu and we advised that cabinet issues be kept as a nuclear secret. To be sure, […]
Four people died when gunmen raided a hospital and burnt it to the ground in western Cameroon where anglophone separatists have been fighting troops, witnesses and a local official said Monday. The incident occurred in Kumba, a town which serves as the commercial hub for the anglophone region and which has been badly hit by […]
In a renewed attack, Cameroonian government forces struck the Anglophone village of Ossing in Manyu division in the early hours of Sunday, 10th October, killing and maiming scores of civilians with many displaced. This fresh attack follows Thursday Massacre in Besongabang, another Anglophone village in what is now infamously known as the Anglophone Crisis. The […]
The Cameroon Special Criminal Court imposed travel restrictions on former Minister of Defense, Alain Edgard Mebe Ngo’o, banning him from leaving the country “till further notice,” according to an order signed Jan. 30 but made public on Sunday. The court also barred Ngo’o’s wife Bernadette Mebe Ngo’o, and two army officers, Ghislain Victor Mboutou and […]
