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Cameroon’s military has reportedly killed scores of armed Anglophone separatists — who vowed to disrupt March senate elections in Cameroon’s western regions — in clashes over the past three weeks, detaining at least 15 others who surrendered to government forces. Ndop district residents in Cameroon’s restive Northwest region say seven bodies were found in bushes […]
Algeria has flashed out in recent days close to 900 sub-Saharan migrants as the country closes ears to criticism of its inhuman expulsion of Africans abandoned, unattended in the desert at the border with Niger. Exactly 899 migrants from 16 southern Saharan countries were deported by Algerian authorities on February 12, said Alarm Phone Sahara, […]
Cameroon under the directives of President Paul Biya has lined up for a $34.7 million loan from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to finance the Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction and Development of the Anglophone Regions of Northwest and Southwest. The plan estimated at around $3 billion encompasses three phases namely rehabilitation and development of […]
Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga, owner of L’Anecdote media group and acquaintance of Cameroonian Minister of Justice Laurent Esso, was arrested Monday in connection to investigation into the abduction and murder of journalist Martinez Zogo last month. The arrest came after Justin Danwe, Deputy Director of Cameroon’s General Directorate for External Investigations (DGRE) confessed to authorities he […]
The Cameroonian armed forces have deployed soldiers at the border with Nigeria after the borderline was theater of bout between Nigerian sharpers and Cameroonian separatists. Some 100 soldiers have been sent to the village of Gayama to prevent clashes on the border with Nigeria. At least 12 people have died in the clashes that have […]
Fishermen in Cameroon are urging authorities to crack down on hundreds of illegal fishers and fish farmers operating in the Gulf of Guinea after the European Union banned imports of Cameroon’s seafood. There are several hundred fishers in Idenau, a coastal village near Cameroon’s western border with Nigeria, authorities in the capital, Yaoundé, say, while […]
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 […]
The Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) elected Tuesday Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, the President of the Transition Military Council of Chad, as its new Chairman in replacement of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari. The commission gathered in Abuja at the 16th Summit of the Heads of State and Government. Buhari, reports say, before handing the baton […]
At least 11 people were reported dead in a land subsidence Sunday in the central region of Cameroon, Anadolu news agency reports citing the governor of the region. “The victims, who had come to take part in a funeral ceremony, had sat down under several large tents on a vacant lot at the top of […]
An estimated 4 million people, many of them small subsistence farmers, in over a dozen countries in West and Central Africa that have seen their crops decimated by unusually heavy flooding. In northern Cameroon, for example, the latest floods have destroyed the harvest for this season, while nearly 1 million hectares of farmland across the […]