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21, July 2018
Disunity in Cameroon: Mediation unlikely as Anglophone crisis escalates 0
The violence in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions has reached unprecedented levels in recent months and shows no signs of stopping in the run up to presidential elections on 7 October. Neither side is inclined to negotiate as increasingly brazen separatist attacks are met with increasingly brutal responses from security forces. On 12 July, at least 10 […]
20, July 2018
Cameroon Lost Kylian Mbappe To France Due To Corruption 0
Cameroonian father of the World Cup sensation Kylian Mbappe says that he wanted his son to play for the Central African nation but the dream was crushed due to corruption. In a widely circulated statement, Wilfried Mbappe is quoted saying “someone” at the Cameroon FA charged a sum of money he could not part with […]
20, July 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: China donates €7m to Cameroon’s security forces 0
China has donated 6.86 million euros ($7.95 million) to Cameroon’s army to boost its “peacekeeping and security operations”, state radio reported Thursday. The donation was made on Wednesday by China’s ambassador to the central African country, Wang Ying Wu, in a meeting with Defence Minister Joseph Beti Assomo, CRTV reported. The ambassador told state radio […]
20, July 2018
Serbia Urged to Stop Selling Arms to Cameroon 0
After a video of executions in Cameroon featured what seemed to be soldiers using Serbian-made arms, Amnesty International has asked Serbia to stop exporting weapons to the country. Amnesty International told BIRN that Cameroon has used Serbian-made weapons in a pattern of “systematic violations” of human rights, and has called on Serbia to suspend arms export to […]
20, July 2018
French Cameroon military, Ambazonia Restoration Forces blamed for ‘grave abuses’ 0
Violent tensions between Cameroon’s government and Anglophone separatists have forced more than 180,000 people from their homes since December, Human Rights Watch said Thursday in a new report that blames both sides for “grave abuses” against civilians. Warnings about Cameroon’s crisis are growing as the Central African nation faces an October election in which 85-year-old […]
20, July 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Government can’t believe it! 0
When Cameroon’s long-serving dictator, Paul Biya, declared war on Southern Cameroonians in January 2018, little did he know that government casualties will become the next crisis he will be dealing with. His defense minister, Joseph Beti Assomo, had overtly declared that his troops would implement the president’s decision without batting an eyelid. A veiled threat […]
20, July 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: The dangers of Yaounde-Buea’s war of words 0
FOR decades Cameroon, wedged between central and west Africa, enjoyed a reputation for calm and stability while its neighbours were mired in a cycle of coups-d’état, wars and bloodshed. Yet today that stability is no longer guaranteed, and a long-simmering crisis is erupting. Protests, which began in October 2016 with Anglophone teachers and barristers demonstrating […]
20, July 2018
Ambazonian MPs, Senators still in Yaounde as Southern Cameroons faces more persecution 0
The Ambazonian Interim government says French Cameroun army violence persists against Southern Cameroonians and the overall environment remains menacing for Ambazonians on ground zero. Communication Secretary, Hon. Chris Anu said in a statement on Thursday that the genocide going on in Southern Cameroons towns and villages and the arrival of thousands of Southern Cameroons refugees […]
19, July 2018
President of South Sudan says ready to accept peace deal 0
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir said he is ready to accept a peace deal to end a civil war and set up an inclusive new government. The deal being negotiated in Sudan would give the country five vice presidents and also covers security and power sharing. “The people of South Sudan are looking for peace […]
21, July 2018
Battle for Southern Cameroons: Roman Catholic Priest killed in Muyuka 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Religion
The Catholic Education Secretary in the Buea Diocese in Southern Cameroons Alexandre Sob Nougi has been shot dead along the Buea-Muyuka road by Cameroon government forces. Revered Father Alexander Sob Nougi also moonlighted as the parish priest in Bomaka in the outskirts of Buea. Local media sources confirmed that the man of God was caught […]