First Independent Mena Newspaper
At least twenty people, including women and children, have been killed and another ten injured in a dawn raid on a village by Anglophone separatists in western Cameroon, where these rebels and the army have been fighting each other for seven years. The English-speaking gunmen attacked a village in a neighborhood in the town of […]
Cameroon’s military announces it deployed scores of troops to three districts on Monday January 2 in the central African state’s English-speaking Northwest region to deal with an increased violence by armed gangs. The military says armed gangs in Oku, Kumbo and Kakiri districts over the weekend sealed markets, chased people and vehicles from the streets […]
At least twenty two people, including 14 children and women were killed Friday in the village of Ntumbo, populated by the English-speaking minority in northwest Cameroon. The majority of children are under 5. The opposition and local NGOs have accused the government and the military, who have been fighting Anglophone secessionist armed groups for three […]
At least a hundred individuals were abducted by armed separatists in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon before the legislative and municipal elections of Feb.9, revealed Human Rights Watch (HRW), which accused the soldiers of “new abuses”. “Armed separatists (…) kidnapped over 100 people, burned property, and threatened voters in the run-up to the elections,” the […]
In Cameroon, ten separatists have been handed life sentences by a military court sitting in the capital, Yaounde. The leader of the most known separatist group, the Southern Cameroon National Council, SCNC, Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, is among the convicts. Ayuk Tabe was the first self-proclaimed president of “Ambazonia”, a breakaway state declared in October 2017 […]