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26, August 2019
Cameroon-Nigeria Border: Six Mine-resistant Military Vehicles Intercepted 0
No fewer than six mine-resistant military vehicles have been intercepted by a joint security operatives in Konkol, a border community in Maiha Local Government Area of Adamawa State between Nigeria and Cameroon republic. It is not clear yet if the vehicles were exiting or coming into the country when they were intercepted. A source in […]
26, August 2019
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Prominent kidnapped Catholic bishop released 0
A prominent Catholic bishop in Cameroon was released late Saturday after being kidnapped in the country’s volatile English-speaking Northwest region, according to church officials. “Bishop George Nkuo of Kumbo Diocese has been released by his captors. He is back in the parish and in good health,” the officials said in a statement. Armed separatists claimed […]
26, August 2019
Life Sentences Against Ambazonia Leaders Will Only Prolong Crisis 0
The separatist crisis in Cameroon deepened this week after a military tribunal handed down life sentences to the separatist movement’s leader and nine of his followers. As observers warned that the sentences would make it harder to bring the two-year conflict to an end, separatist militias launched reprisal attacks that killed at least two people […]
26, August 2019
What it would take to break the impasse in Cameroon’s deadly crisis 0
Felix Agbor Balla Nkongho is a leading Cameroonian lawyer and award-winning human rights advocate. Nkongho was detained for nine months for taking part in protests against the marginalisation of the legal and education systems in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon. The Francophone government responded with deadly violence marked by gross human rights violations. Nkongho (49) […]
23, August 2019
Cameroon’s civil war will continue 0
Since January last year, the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon have slid into a conflict that would have been unimaginable a few years ago. The Anglophone northwest and southwest have suffered the havoc of a war of secession that has displaced at least half a million people, leaving 1.3-million in need of humanitarian assistance, according […]
22, August 2019
Can the Church help stop Cameroon’s slide into civil war? 0
Last week unidentified gunmen seized two Catholic priests in the village of Ibal in the restive Anglophone region of Cameroon. Church officials said they were “kidnapped late at night” and appealed to their abductors to release them unharmed. Local police claimed that the kidnappers were separatists seeking to break away from Francophone Cameroon and found […]
22, August 2019
Pirates contact owner of vessel seized off Cameroon 0
The pirates, who kidnapped eight sailors from a cargo vessel off the coast of Cameroon last week, contacted the ship owner, according to a source from the Russian Embassy in Cameroon on Wednesday. Three Russian nationals are being held hostage and a ransom for their release is being negotiated on, a source in the embassy […]
22, August 2019
Ambazonia Restoration Forces attack French Cameroun military installations 0
Cameroon’s Anglophone separatists have attacked towns and villages in protest after a military tribunal gave their leader and 9 supporters life sentences. Cameroon’s military says at least two people were killed in Bamenda and six wounded in a shoot-out with separatists. Food seller Donatus Ngwa, 24, fled fighting Wednesday in the northwestern English-speaking town of […]
22, August 2019
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Tension mounts after fake life sentence 0
Tensions are mounting in many cities and towns in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon after a military tribunal slammed a life sentence on Southern Cameroonian leaders. On Wednesday, gunmen chased local business people in Bamenda, Northwest region, from their business locations as they argued that there would be no business given that their leaders […]
26, August 2019
FECAFOOT suspends professional football league 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Sports
The resolution to suspend local football was taken after a meeting at the headquarters of Fecafoot on August 22 The Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) has taken the step to halt the Professional Football League of Cameroon (LFPC) effective immediately due to the “serious and repeated violation of its obligations, as stipulated in Article 14 paragraph […]