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26, March 2018
Southern Cameroons Conflict Halts Cameroon-Nigeria Business 0
Separatist violence in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon along the border with Nigeria have completely stalled trade between the two countries. Buses no longer ply the Bamenda-Enugu road corridor as attacks and kidnappings continue. About 70 men and women have assembled at Kandem, a village in southwestern Cameroon on the border with Nigeria to discuss […]
26, March 2018
Cameroun votes new Senate as tensions plague Southern Cameroons 0
Senate elections took place in Cameroon Sunday, as tensions continued to soar in the French-majority country’s anglophone regions where separatist rebels have been fighting government forces for several months. Senate elections do not take place by universal suffrage in the West African nation. Some 10,000 municipal councillors across Cameroon are voting for 70 members of […]
26, March 2018
Paul Biya: Cameroon’s ‘absentee president’ 0
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has been in power for 35 years. But while his longevity in office is a talking point at home, the time he spends out of the country has stirred international comment – as Paul Melly, an associate fellow of Chatham House, explains. Criticised by some for a supposedly “hands-off” style of […]
25, March 2018
German police arrest ex-Catalan leader on Danish border 0
Catalonia’s former President Carles Puigdemont has been detained by German police as he was crossing the border with Denmark by car. The arrest on Sunday came just two days after Spain’s Supreme Court vowed to prosecute 13 key separatists, including Puigdemont and his nominated successor Jordi Turull, over their role in the region’s failed breakaway […]
25, March 2018
Chad soldier, 20 Boko Haram militants killed in clashes 0
A Chadian soldier and 20 militants from the Nigeria-based Takfiri group Boko Haram have been killed in a clash in the volatile Lake Chad region. A Chadian military officer said Saturday that the incident took place on Friday on an islet named Tchoukou Hadje, adding that five soldiers were injured. “Twenty Boko Haram members were killed […]
25, March 2018
Thousands rally in Brussels to protest racism, discrimination 0
Around four thousand people have rallied in the Belgian capital to denounce racism and discrimination and demand equality for all. The Saturday rally was organized by social groups and left-wing parties in Brussels where participants marched five kilometers (three miles) through the city. They held up signs reading, “United against racism” and “together against discrimination.” “I […]
24, March 2018
Cameroonian journalists face ban on political reporting 0
Journalists in the central African country of Cameroon are in a quandary about how to fight a government ban on political reporting in the run-up to the March 25 senatorial elections. Some, like private media outlets Galaxy FM and Magic FM, are defying the edict. “We won’t accept limiting freedom of speech when Cameroon wants […]
24, March 2018
Quotable Quotes in the Southern Cameroons Struggle for Independence 0
Our traditional rulers have been turned into auxiliaries of an alien enemy administration and informants of the brutal colonial secret police in the land which our ancestors passed over to us and posterity. These are the crimes our Ambazonia self defense groups have taken up arms to free all of us from. If they arrest […]
24, March 2018
USA: Cameroonians to wave goodbye to their football king 0
Hundreds of Cameroon football fans in the USA will pay tribute to former football star, Ntoko Roland during a testimonial game to be hosted in Dallas. The Cameroonian football hero, a one-time Best Foreign Player of the Year in Slovenia, retired from the beautiful game long ago but will now be honoured on his 50th […]
26, March 2018
Yaounde Arrests Boko Haram Fighters and Accomplices 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
Cameroon’s military has arrested several Boko Haram fighters and their 25 female accomplices who were attempting to supply food and weapons through Cameroon to the fighters in Nigeria. Most of the women say their husbands are fighters in Nigeria. Alban Toupo, commander of the Rapid Intervention Battalion, the Cameroon military unit fighting the Boko Haram […]