Cameroon
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 05:07:49 GMTSeparatist Groups Commit Rights Abuses, HRW Says
[DW] Separatist groups in Cameroon's Anglophone region have become increasingly more violent, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Monday.
Mon, 27 Jun 2022 10:27:49 GMTSeparatist Fighters Accused of Killings, Rape, Abductions
[HRW] Prosecute, Sanction Fighters for Crimes Against Civilians
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:53:35 GMTNew Report Blames Separatists in Cameroon for Gross Human Rights Violations
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- A Human Rights Watch report released Monday says separatists in Cameroon are increasingly brutal in their attacks. Human Rights Watch says separatists have committed murders, are using rape as a weapon, and have carried out...
Fri, 24 Jun 2022 14:06:28 GMTGovt Deploys Hundreds of Troops to Protect 40,000 People Displaced By Boko Haram
[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameron has deployed hundreds of troops along its border with Nigeria after attacks by Boko Haram militants forced more than 40,000 villagers over the past two months to flee the area. Cameroon's defense minister is visiting the bord...
Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:45:59 GMTBroken Promises - Cameroon's Troubled Disarmament Initiative
[The New Humanitarian] Buea, Cameroon -- 'The movement has changed - it's now about kidnapping, stealing, and demanding ransoms.'
Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:17:00 GMTGovt Woos Potential Disapora Investors, but Faces Distrust
[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroon's President Paul Biya has for the first time sent a delegation to Europe to try to encourage well-off Cameroonians living there to invest back home. But members of Cameroon's diaspora say undemocratic practices and corruptio...
Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:16:44 GMTWomen Refugees in Cameroon Struggle to Survive
[VOA] Ngam, Cameroon -- Cameroon hosts about 460,000 refugees and asylum-seekers, most of them women and children who escaped violence in the Central African Republic and Nigeria. But while they have found safety in Cameroon, women refugees are not a...
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:53:50 GMTCameroon, Central African Republic Agree to Demarcate Border
[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroon and the Central African Republic have agreed to demarcate several hundred kilometers of their shared border. The countries have have competing claims to villages and towns along the porous, undefined border. The two sides al...
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:34:00 GMTHow Mugisha Overcame a Difficult Start to Win Tour Du Cameroun
[New Times] Moise Mugisha, the newly crowned Tour du Cameroun champion and his teammates received a heroes' welcome in Kigali on Tuesday after Team Rwanda dominated the race that concluded on Sunday, June 12.
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:00:56 GMTCameroonians Protest After Hospital Torched
[VOA] Yaounde -- In Cameroon, hundreds of people have protested attacks on schools, churches, and clinics in the country's troubled west after a hospital in the city of Mamfe was torched. Cameroon's military and separatists traded blame for last week...
Mon, 13 Jun 2022 05:38:29 GMTMoise Mugisha Wins Tour Du Cameroun
[New Times] Moïse Mugisha on Sunday, June 13 was crowned the winner of the Tour du Cameroun 2022 race.
Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:35:18 GMTPatrick Mboma Appointed Indomitable Lions Ambassador
[CAF] Former Cameroon goal poacher Henri Patrick Mboma Dem, has been appointed Ambassador of the Indomitable Lions.
Fri, 10 Jun 2022 06:58:56 GMTGovt Deploys Troops After Deadly Separatist Attack On Military Post
[VOA] Njitapon, Cameroon -- Cameroon's military on Thursday said it deployed about a hundred troops to the French-speaking village of Njitapon, after 35 anglophone separatists attacked the outpost.
Thu, 09 Jun 2022 07:50:46 GMTTroops Kill 9 Civilians in Separatist Region
[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroon's military says it has arrested four of its troops for the killing of nine civilians, including four women and a baby. A military spokesman says the troops fired on villagers after not getting any help in their search for a ...
Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:33:02 GMTMarie-Alix De Putter, President of the Bluemind Foundation, Named 'Best Woman Leader in Africa'
[New Dawn] The French-Cameroonian Marie-Alix de Putter, President of the Bluemind Foundation and CEO of HEMLEY Productions, named "Best Woman Leader in Africa" (special mention) at the 2022 edition of the Africa Investments Forum & Awards (AIFA).
Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:37:39 GMTRed Cross Appeals for Aid to Support Fleeing Cameroonian Refugees
[Premium Times] "Our personnel have been very busy attending to the influx of these refugees, many of whom are severely wounded."
Wed, 08 Jun 2022 07:45:23 GMTChildren Protest Abuses in Separatist Conflict
[VOA] Yaounde -- Several hundred children marched through the streets of Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé, on June 6 holding placards that called for an end to the use of child soldiers in the country's separatist conflict, as well as other abuses to chi...
Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:37:51 GMTLocusts in Cameroon - From Pest to Seasonal Asset
[New Frame] People fleeing the wartorn north-west region are catching grasshoppers, plucking, spicing, cooking and selling them. The profit helps keep children in school and households fed.
Tue, 07 Jun 2022 07:54:25 GMTSuluhu Hassan Congratulates Serengeti Girls for Beating Cameroon 1 - 0
[Daily News] President Samia Suluhu Hassan sent a congratulatory message to the U-17 National women's soccer team, Serengeti Girls for their victory over Cameroon on Sunday and subsequently qualifying for the 2022 World Cup.
Mon, 06 Jun 2022 06:02:46 GMTCameroon, CAR Join Forces to Fight Rebels On Border
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- A commission of senior security and state officials from the troubled Central African Republic and Cameroon has agreed to jointly fight armed C.A.R. rebels they say are fleeing intensive fighting and infiltrating refugee ca...
Fri, 03 Jun 2022 06:39:50 GMTCentral African Republic Refugees Leave Cameroon On Promises of Peace
[VOA] Gado Badzere, Cameroon -- Central African Republic refugees in Cameroon have started returning home after fleeing political and sectarian violence there since 2014. There are around 300,000 C.A.R. refugees in Cameroon, most of them women and ch...
Tue, 31 May 2022 14:19:49 GMTMilitary Frees Senator, Other Separatist Hostages
[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroon's military says it has freed a senator who was held captive by separatists for a month along with other hostages.
Mon, 30 May 2022 12:20:19 GMTCameroon's Missed Foreign Policy Potential in Africa
[ISS] Despite its leading role in the AU's highest decision-making body, Cameroon's stance on African issues remains opaque.
Mon, 30 May 2022 06:02:56 GMTDonors Distribute Sanitary Pads to Girls Displaced By Crisis On World Menstrual Hygiene Day
[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroon observed World Menstrual Hygiene Day Saturday with donors and health workers distributing reusable sanitary pads to several hundred poor girls displaced by terrorism and the country's separatist crisis. Some of the girls sai...
Sat, 28 May 2022 07:45:14 GMTCameroon Slashes Taxes to Tap Its Solar Power Potential
[Thomson Reuters Foundation] With its hydroelectric plants hobbled by drought, the country is courting investors to grow a more stable solar energy supply