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  • FILE: Cameroonian general Donatien Nouma Melingui, in charge of military operations in the South-West Region of Cameroon stands by a national flag at the 21st Motorized Infantry Brigade headquarter on 26 April 2018 in Buea. Picture: AFP

    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.

    1297 days ago
  • Cameroon flag. Picture: Wikimedia Commons.

    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.

    1298 days ago
  • Supporters of Cameroonian President Paul Biya celebrate his re-election in Yaoundé on 6 November 2018. Picture: AFP

    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.

    1298 days ago
  • FILE: Cameroonian President Paul Biya. Picture: facebook.com

    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.

    1299 days ago
  • FILE: Cameroon president Paul Biya. Picture: AFP

    Cameroon leader Paul Biya’s inauguration overshadowed by mass kidnapping

    The school’s headmaster, teacher and a driver were taken along with the children.

    1299 days ago
  • Cameroon flag. Picture: Wikimedia Commons.

    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.

    1300 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay.com

    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.

    1300 days ago
  • Cameroon President Paul Biya. Picture: AFP

    Cameroon President Biya re-elected with 71.3 % of vote

    Official results of the 7 October ballot were announced in a state television broadcast.

    1314 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied

    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.

    1315 days ago
  • FILE: Cameroonian President Paul Biya. Picture: facebook.com

    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.

    1317 days ago
  • Cameroon’s Social Democratic Front leader Ni John Fru Ndi. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    1318 days ago
  • United Nations peacekeepers from Mali are briefed before their patrol during elections in Bangui in the Central African Republic in 1998. Picture: UN Photo

    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.

    1318 days ago
  • FILE: Maurice Kamto, leader of the Cameroonian opposition party Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    1319 days ago
  • FILE: In this file photo taken on 30 September 2018, Maurice Kamto, leader of the Cameroonian opposition party Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC) addresses supporters during a campaign rally for the presidential elections in Yaounde. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    1328 days ago
  • FILE: Cameroonian President Paul Biya. Picture: facebook.com

    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.

    1328 days ago
  • FILE: Residents from the Western Region in Cameroon arrive at the bus terminal in Buea following renewed clashed in the restive anglophone region on 15 July, 2018. Picture: AFP

    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.

    1333 days ago
  • Cameroon flag. Picture: Wikimedia Commons.

    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.

    1336 days ago
  • Cameroon flag. Picture: Wikimedia Commons.

    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.

    1337 days ago
  • FILE: Cameroonian President Paul Biya. Picture: facebook.com

    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.

    1337 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied

    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.

    1339 days ago
  • FILE: Cameroonian soldier. Picture: AFP.

    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.

    1340 days ago
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