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19, July 2018
Biya regime arrests four soldiers in connection with execution of women and children 0
Cameroon has arrested four soldiers suspected of shooting dead two women and two children in the country’s far north where its army is battling jihadist group Boko Haram, two security sources told Reuters. A video of the incident, which has been shared tens of thousands of times on Twitter since it emerged last week, has […]
19, July 2018
French Cameroun: Shocking video exposes extrajudicial killings 0
A video which appears to show Cameroonian soldiers executing two women, a young girl and a baby was widely circulated on social media last week. The video depicts two men in army uniforms assaulting the female detainees outside a village in northern Cameroon, telling them, “BH, you are going to die” (BH is slang for […]
19, July 2018
How Boko Haram ruined Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission 0
The demarcation of the Cameroon-Nigeria border and the pillar construction continued to face challenges due to insecurity in areas affected by the presence of Boko Haram, the United Nations (UN) has said. This is contained in a ‘Report of the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and […]
19, July 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Police officer decapitated in Menchum County 0
A Cameroonian police officer was decapitated on Wednesday in the country’s restive anglophone region, sources said. The officer who was killed was stationed at the town of Wum in the northeast of the country, a security source told AFP, confirming information from one of the victim’s relatives. He had been at a roadblock with a […]
19, July 2018
Southern Cameroons crisis hits palm oil, cocoa production 0
The crisis in anglophone Cameroon is damaging the Southwest Region’s economy, with palm oil plantations closing and the cocoa trade tumbling, an NGO report said Wednesday. The Southwest Region faces almost daily clashes between the army and separatists in a conflict that originated mainly in Cameroon’s second anglophone area, the Northwest Region. The state-run palm […]
19, July 2018
Obama says young Africans must stay and transform Africa 0
Former U.S. president Barack Obama advised talented young Africans on Wednesday to drive change at home rather than emigrating, and urged their governments to do more to curb a brain drain. Obama, whose Kenyan-born father studied in the United States but later returned home to work as an economist, described the phenomenon of the best […]
19, July 2018
SDF files to contest Oct. 7 presidential polls 0
The Social Democratic Front (SDF), Cameroon’s main opposition party has officially filed the candidacy of its flagbearer for presidential polls slated for October 7, 2018. Local media reports that a mammoth crowd accompanied 49-year-old Joshua Osih Nabangi on Wednesday (July 18) as he submitted his papers at the Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) regional offices in Douala. […]
18, July 2018
UN warns about surge in Mali communal violence 0
The United Nations (UN) has expressed concern about an “alarming” rise in communal violence between Mali’s rival militant groups, which has left hundreds of civilians dead so far this year. Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Rupert Colville said in a statement on Tuesday that at least 289 civilian deaths had […]
18, July 2018
Yaounde: 85 year-old Biya wants a 7th term as massacres grow 0
The U.S. State Department on Monday condemned the release of a video appearing to show soldiers in Cameroon killing a woman and infant, among others. As President Paul Biya, 85, prepares to run for a seventh term as president, foreign governments and human rights organizations are increasingly sounding the alarm on growing violence between French […]
19, July 2018
Congo-Kinshasa: Kabila mute on political future in address to lawmakers 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, Politics
President Joseph Kabila has refused to make clear pronouncements on his political future as leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Speaking in an address to a joint sitting of the country’s legislature, Kabila whose legal tenure of office expired in December 2016 failed to address the issue of whether he was interested in […]