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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.
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Curfew in anglophone Cameroon ahead of 'independence' anniversary
The anniversary on Monday will kick off a crucial week for the country which heads to the polls next Sunday to vote in an election that anglophone secessionists have threatened to disrupt.
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Decision on Cameroon hosting next Afcon is delayed
Two separate inspection visits will be made in October and November to the central African country, whose hosting of the finals has been in jeopardy for the last year since the decision to increase the size of the tournament from 16 to 24 teams.
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Troubled Cameroon holds its breath as separatists' anniversary looms
Attacks are occurring daily in the two regions that are home to this French-speaking country's anglophones, and many say they are afraid.
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Scores escape in anglophone Cameroon jailbreak
At least 80 inmates in Cameroon's restive English-speaking northwest escaped after gunmen stormed their prison overnight and allegedly battered down the prisoners' cell doors.
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Cameroon soldiers arrested for killing suspected Boko Haram sympathisers
Authorities in Yaoundè, who initially dismissed footage of the killings as fake news, now say seven soldiers have been arrested.
