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8, March 2019
Cameroon Holds Mass Wedding to Boost Women’s Legal Rights 0
In Cameroon, 82 couples have taken part in a mass wedding ceremony as part of efforts to better protect the legal rights of women. Only 10 percent of marriages in Cameroon are legalized, leaving wives with few rights. The mass wedding ceremony is part of activities to mark Friday’s International Women’s Day. For the event, […]
8, March 2019
Francophone Crisis: Yaounde High Court Refuses to Release Opposition Figures 0
High Court refused to release opposition leader Maurice Kamto, as well as six of his supporters, who were arrested in January on politically motivated charges. The Mfoundi High Court, located in Cameroon’s political capital, Yaoundé, made this decision following a habeas corpus request filed by the detainees’ defence lawyers. Kamto and his party, the Cameroon […]
8, March 2019
Yaounde needs to address Southern Cameroons Crisis: US Top diplomat 0
The current crisis in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions has raged since late 2016 with protests over perceived marginalisation by the Francophone majority morphing into almost daily clashes between security forces and armed separatists. “There’s a very serious national crisis going on, but I believe the government needs to be more serious in how they address it,” […]
8, March 2019
Southern Cameroons: Fear reigns in the capital city 0
In the capital of Southern Cameroons, people drily say the streets are so dangerous that even the dogs are too scared to go outside. Buea has been stalked by violence for 18 months, after English-speaking separatists declared an independent state and took up arms against the French-speaking authorities. In Buea, barely a day goes by […]
7, March 2019
Eto’o to take ‘forced’ DNA test to determine paternity of ex-girlfriend’s son 0
Cameroon football legend Samuel Eto’o could soon undergo a paternity test against his wish in the culmination of a two-decade battle against his alleged love child. According to media reports, the former Cameroon International – considered one of the best African football talents of all time – is battling accusations from one Adileusa do Rosario […]
7, March 2019
Nigerian govt condemns ejection of refugees by Cameroon 0
The Nigerian government has condemned the ejection of her citizens who are taking refuge in Cameroon by the country’s authorities. A statement issued by the Federal National Commissioner for the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Sadiya Farouq, accused the Cameroonian government of flouting the United Nations Convention on Refugees and its […]
7, March 2019
Yaounde: Mebe Ngo’o was in tears as he was being whisked from the court to prison 0
Cameroon’s ex-Defence minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o, often touted as as a possible successor to he long-serving President Paul Biya, has been remanded in prison over corruption allegations. The Special Criminal Court in Yaoundé ordered that Mr Mebe Ngo’o be remanded at the Kondengui Maximum Security Prison while investigations continue into an alleged corruption and […]
7, March 2019
The role of imperialism in Anglophone-Francophone bloodshed 0
Monday 1 October marked the one-year anniversary of the declaration of independence by anglophone separatists in the southwest of Cameroon, when they announced the birth of a new nation: Ambazonia. That declaration of independence provoked a brutal clampdown by the Cameroonian government, leading to hundreds of civilians and dozens of members of the security forces […]
6, March 2019
Southern Cameroons Crisis-Maurice Kamto Affair: Yaounde 1, Washington Nil 0
Yaoundé has denounced political pressure coming from the United States on its management of the Maurice Kamto Affair and the crisis in Southern Cameroons observing that foreign governments should stay clear of the domestic affairs of sovereign nations. Communications Minister, Rene Emmanuel Sadi issued the statement following remarks that came from Tibor Nagy, the US […]
8, March 2019
WWF-funded forces in Cameroon have tortured and killed indigenous people 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The World Wide Fund for Nature was warned years ago that its staff was complicit in “frightening” raids on indigenous villages by anti-poaching eco-guards, internal documents reveal. A BuzzFeed News investigation exposed on Monday how the beloved wildlife charity WWF has for years funded and equipped paramilitary forces that have tortured and killed villagers living near the national […]