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Kenyan priest killed in Cameroon's anglophone region - church
The church suggested the priest may have been killed by the military.
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25 separatists killed in Cameroon - security officials
Photos obtained by AFP from a source close to the security services showed about 10 bodies lined up on the ground. Weapons, mainly shotguns, were placed alongside.
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Kidnappers free last of 80 Cameroon schoolboys
Armed men seized the children, their principal and other adults in Bamenda, a centre of the country’s troubled English-speaking region where separatists are fighting to form a breakaway republic called Ambazonia.
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Cameroon journalist freed after state security charge
Mimi Mefo was charged by a military tribunal on Wednesday and placed in preventive detention in the commercial capital Douala, lawyer Alice Nkom said.
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Journalist jailed in Cameroon for 'attacking state security'
Mimi Mefo was charged by a military tribunal and placed in preventive detention in the New-Bell prison in Cameroon's commercial capital Douala, lawyer Alice Nkom said.
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More details emerge of operation to free kidnapped Cameroon pupils
Armed separatist militants on Monday stormed a school in Bamenda, capital of the Northwest Region, seizing 79 schoolboys and three adults, prompting urgent calls for their release.
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79 abducted pupils freed in troubled Cameroon region: minister
Seventy-nine school pupils abducted by gunmen this week in a troubled English-speaking region of Cameroon have been freed, the country's communications minister told AFP Wednesday.
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Cameroon govt, separatists blame each other for kidnapping
The kidnappers of 79 pupils, the headmaster, a teacher and driver from the Presbyterian boarding school in Bamenda call themselves the Amba Boya.
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Cameroon leader tells separatists to down arms after kidnapping
Clashes between a secessionist movement and the army began more than a year ago in west Cameroon, killing over 400 civilians.
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Cameroon leader Paul Biya’s inauguration overshadowed by mass kidnapping
The school’s headmaster, teacher and a driver were taken along with the children.
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79 school pupils abducted in restive anglophone Cameroon
The students were abducted along with their principal, a teacher and a driver, according to an official.
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Facebook's Cameroon problem: Stop online hate stoking conflict
Some Facebook users said the man was a cannibal and that the video was shot in the country’s English-speaking west, where separatist insurgents are fighting to create a breakaway state.
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Cameroon President Biya re-elected with 71.3 % of vote
Official results of the 7 October ballot were announced in a state television broadcast.
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Authorities deny 6 children kidnapped from Cameroon school
On Friday a teacher told AFP that gunmen abducted the six children from a school in the region's capital Bamenda.
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Cameroon court rejects all petitions calling for re-run of elections
The rejections pave the way for the official announcement of election results before Sunday, which are widely expected to extend the 37-year rule of President Paul Biya.
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Cameroon opposition leader’s home torched, court told
The political crisis in the English-speaking west of this Francophone country erupted in 2016 and deteriorated into an armed separatist uprising in 2017.
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How Russia moved into Central Africa
Russia’s moves come at a time when the defense ministry’s influence over Kremlin foreign policy is growing against a backdrop of heightened tension with the West.
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Cameroon court hears calls for ‘irregular’ election to be annulled
President Paul Biya is widely expected to extend his 36-year rule by winning a seventh term, making him one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders.
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Cameroon opposition candidate Kamto declares victory in presidential poll
The election was widely expected to extend the rule of Biya, one of Africa’s last multi-decade leaders who has held power for 36 years.
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Vote counting begins in Cameroon following Sunday elections
Cameroon’s 85-year-old President Paul Biya is a certainty to beat off his eight challengers and win a seventh term at the helm.
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Cameroon's displaced thousands fear disenfranchisement
The raid happened in Djakana in Cameroon's far north near the Nigerian border and forced her to abandon her home along with her 13 children.
