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30, March 2019
Indomitable Lion’s Clinton N’Jie: Time to shine? 0
The forward has endured a stop-start career to date, but could he finally be primed to realise his potential? When Clinton N’Jie put Cameroon 1-0 up in their 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2014, barely 44 minutes into his Indomitable Lions career, there was a ripple of excitement about the […]
30, March 2019
Southern Cameroons Crisis: All Anglophone Conference Goes Underway in America 0
The All Anglophone Conference designed to enable all Southern Cameroons’ factions to find a unified position on the way forward in efforts at resolving the conflict in the two English-speaking regions of Cameroon. The Washington conference will also help to soften certain positions and iron out some of the differences that have made it hard […]
29, March 2019
The Holy Father sends message of peace ahead of visit to Morocco 0
Pope Francis on Thursday sent a message of peace ahead of his 2 day visit to Morocco. The head of the Vatican is the first pope to visit the north African nation in 35 years. “ As Christians and Muslims, we believe in God the Creator and Merciful One, who has created men and women […]
29, March 2019
Human Rights Watch Blasts Cameroon; Military Rejects ‘Biased’ Report 0
A new report from Human Rights Watch says Cameroon’s military has killed scores of people and burned down hundreds of homes in its campaign against separatists in the country’s Anglophone regions. Cameroon is rejecting the report as grossly biased. Government spokesperson Rene Emmanuel Sadi read a communique on Cameroon state radio CRTV, saying troops fighting separatists in […]
29, March 2019
Slow progress for Yaoundé-Douala highway 0
Progress remains slow for the construction of the highway connecting Cameroon’s two largest cities, Douala and Yaoundé. The two cities are some 202km apart and the new route is intended to improve transport between Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, and its key commercial city and port, Douala. The existing National Road No3 linking the two cities currently […]
29, March 2019
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Half a million civilians displaced in skirmishes 0
CASH strapped humanitarian organisations are struggling to cater for about 500 000 civilians displaced after clashes by the military and pro-English separatists in Cameroon. The skirmishes have left scores dead in the Central African country. Conflict in the Northwest and Southwest regions emanates from grievances that the government dominated by French speakers is marginalising English […]
29, March 2019
Oppressed English speakers targeted in escalating Cameroonian conflict 0
The conflict ignited almost three years ago; when minority English speakers in the Ambazonia region of Africa’s Cameroon started to speak out against the onslaught of persecution and discrimination of the dominant French-speaking government. Only the response from the leadership was fast and furious. The situation has since escalated into a bloody battle of linguistics. “The English-speaking, […]
28, March 2019
Biya regime forces kill 170 civilians in Southern Cameroons 0
Government forces in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions killed no fewer than 170 civilians over the past six months, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. “Soldiers, special army units and gendarmes used indiscriminate force and torched hundreds of homes and public buildings in the former French colony’s English-speaking North-West Region and South-West Region between October and […]
28, March 2019
Southern Cameroons War: New Attacks on Civilians By Francophone Troops 0
Government forces in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions have killed scores of civilians, used indiscriminate force, and torched hundreds of homes over the past six months, Human Rights Watch said today. Armed separatists have assaulted and kidnapped dozens of people during the same period, executing at least two men, amid intensifying violence and growing calls for secession of the […]
30, March 2019
Ambazonia refugees in Nigeria dream of home 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
Fighting between Cameroon government forces and English-speaking separatists sends thousands of refugees over the border to camps in Nigeria and there’s no end in sight. More people have been forced into refugee camps in Nigeria due to fighting between separatists and government troops in southern Cameroon. More than 30,000 have been officially registered but aid […]