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24, September 2020
French Cameroun protesters call for end to bloodshed in Southern Cameroons 0
Police on Tuesday used tear gas and water cannon to break up a protest by hundreds of people in Cameroon’s economic capital Douala calling for an end to bloodshed in the country’s anglophone regions. Several parties, including that of opposition leader Maurice Kamto, had called for “peaceful marches” against President Paul Biya, 87, who has […]
24, September 2020
Indomitable Lions: Another former defender M’Bom dies 0
Former Cameroon defender Ephrem M’Bom died on Sunday (20 September 2020) in Douala after a long illness. He was 66. M’Bom was a member of The Indomitable Lions squad that played in the 1982 Africa Cup of Nations in Libya, and later in the same year he was part of the Cameroon squad that made […]
24, September 2020
Yaoundé starts candidacy submission for maiden regional elections 0
Cameroonian authorities announced Tuesday the start of the candidacy submission for the country’s pioneer regional elections scheduled for Dec. 6. The country’s national electoral body Elections Cameroon (Elecam) is expected to publish the lists of political parties and candidates vying for the elections after the submission. “The organisational and logistical aspect is ready. The elections […]
24, September 2020
Human Rights Watch urges Biya regime to stop using COVID-19 and anti-terror law as pretext to quell dissent 0
Cameroon authorities banned demonstrations after the opposition party Cameroon Renaissance Movement (Mouvement pour la renaissance du Cameroun, MRC) encouraged people to take to the streets over the government’s decision to call regional elections, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. On September 11, 2020, the governors of the Littoral and Centre regions banned public meetings and […]
24, September 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Political Infighting Could Obstruct a Nascent Peace Process 0
In July, jailed separatist leaders in Cameroon fighting for the creation of an independent state held their first formal talks with the government about ending the violence plaguing the country’s two Anglophone regions. While the origins of the conflict are in colonial-era divisions of territory, its proximate cause was protests in 2016 against the marginalization […]
24, September 2020
French Cameroun Protest: Police and gendarmes used tear gas and water cannon 0
Police and gendarmes in Cameroon used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters calling for an end to President Paul Biya’s near 40-year rule in the commercial hub of Douala on Tuesday, Reuters witnesses said. The protest was called by Biya’s rival Maurice Kamto of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement party, who hopes to spark […]
24, September 2020
French Cameroun Protest: One killed, Kamto’s home was in a state of siege 0
One protester was killed in Cameroon as police and gendarmes put down protests against the veteran President Paul Biya, the country’s main opposition party said on Tuesday, while accusing security forces of laying siege to their leader’s home. Police and gendarmes fired tear gas and water cannon to break up protests in the commercial hub […]
23, September 2020
EU set to propose plan on asylum seekers, but Austria warns against quotas 0
Five years after Europe’s migrant crisis, Brussels will propose on Wednesday that member states share the responsibility for asylum seekers under a “compulsory solidarity mechanism”. But it could spark outrage from countries such as Austria, whose Chancellor Sebastian Kurz warned against any attempts to force EU countries to take in migrants. The New Pact on […]
23, September 2020
Former US Diplomat tells French Cameroun’s Biya: Step down! 0
A former American diplomat Herman Jay Cohen has called on President Biya to step down. Ambassador Cohen made public his position via a tweet message dated 22 September 2020 in which he advised the Cameroonian dictator to emulate the example of his Algerian counterpart, Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The much respected former US diplomat was reacting to […]
25, September 2020
East Cameroon Military atrocities: A ten-year prison sentence is not only weak, it is insignificant 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
A video showing soldiers executing two women at close range, kneeling and blindfolded, along with a girl and a baby two years ago had caused massive outcry in Cameroon. But there is even more outcry now. At the time, the government denied any involvement before recanting and arresting seven soldiers. Four of them have now […]