Cameroon
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 05:06:41 GMTNigeria Keep WAFCON Title Hopes Alive With Win Over Cameroon, Reach World Cup
[CAF] Holders Nigeria kept alive their hopes of retaining their TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations title after narrowly defeating arch-rivals Cameroon 1-0 on Thursday to reach the semi-finals.
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 06:57:57 GMTConflict, Poor Funding Slow Rebuilding in Cameroon
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Cameroon is asking for international help to fund the rebuilding of western regions that have been destroyed in five years of conflict with separatists. A plan to construct roads, schools, hospitals, markets and homes was l...
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 08:30:34 GMTRasheedat Ajibade - We Are Here for Our Decima
[CAF] Rasheedat Ajibade is clear about what Nigeria's Super Falcons want from the 2022 TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations - they want the decima.
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 08:28:53 GMTCameroon-Nigeria As It Happened
[CAF] Casablanca's Mohammed V Stadium was home today to one of the most anticipated quarter-finals of the 2022 TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations, a titanic clash between nine-time African champions Nigeria and bitter rivals Cameroon.
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 13:22:36 GMTMorocco 2022 - Super Falcons Battle Cameroon for World Cup Ticket
[Leadership] Nigeria's Super Falcons will be aiming for another FIFA Women's World Cup ticket when they take on Cameroon's Lionesses on Thursday night in the quarterfinal match of the ongoing CAF Women Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 05:17:21 GMTGovt Orders Investment in Wheat Production to Quell Protests Sparked By Shortages
[VOA] Yaounde -- Cameroon President Paul Biya says the government will increase funding to grow more wheat after protests over wheat shortages and price spikes sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Before Russia's Black Sea blockade, Cameroon impo...
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 11:06:48 GMTSuper Falcons Storm Casablanca for Quarterfinal Clash With Cameroon
[This Day] Reigning African champions Super Falcons of Nigeria have arrived in Casablanca, Morocco, ahead of the quarterfinal clash against Cameroon at the 2022 Women Africa Cup of Nations.
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 05:49:30 GMT2.4 Million People Need Emergency Food Support
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Cameroon's government has called for emergency food support for more than two million people facing hunger along its northern borders with Chad and Nigeria. At a crisis meeting Monday in Yaoundé, authorities blamed natural...
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 06:23:41 GMTEntrepreneurs Find Ways to Supply Fish to Bamenda Despite Anglophone Crisis
[RFI] Entrepreneurs in Cameroon's anglophone region have found a way to provide local, fresh fish to customers, despite a lack of a river and an ongoing armed rebellion. Their efforts could be a game changer for Cameroon's fisheries sector, which fac...
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:55:30 GMTNigeria 4-0 Burundi - Super Falcons Confirm Quarter-Final Ticket, Face Cameroon On Thursday
[Premium Times] The Ajibade-led Super Falcons put up a dominant display against the Burundi ladies
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 05:34:49 GMTLawmakers Ask for Military Protection in English-Speaking Western Regions
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Lawmakers from Cameroon's troubled English-speaking regions are calling for more troops to protect officials, government workers, and their families from separatists. Addressing Cameroon's parliament Wednesday night, the la...
Fri, 08 Jul 2022 07:45:29 GMTMilitary Killings Inquiry a Positive Step
[HRW] Nairobi -- Make Findings Public; Ensure Transparency, Accountability
Thu, 07 Jul 2022 04:26:10 GMTTap Into Indigenous Knowledge to Preserve Our Forests
[IPS] Yaoundé -- A few years ago, I found myself in the Baka indigenous sacred forest in Assok, in Cameroon in the course of my work in supporting them to preserve their forest against land grabbers. We were building a forest hut using only leaves a...
Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:45:34 GMTJapan Partners With WFP to Strengthen Food Security in Cameroon
[WFP] Yaoundé -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomes a USD 1.2 million (JPY 150 million) contribution from the Government of Japan to provide food and nutrition assistance to over 74,600 children, women and men in the Far No...
Sat, 02 Jul 2022 05:26:11 GMTCameroonian Pushes for Restitution of Deity
[DW] Njobati Sylvie, a resolute restitution activist, could not hide her joy and reprieve after Germany's Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation made the announcement that Ngonnso has been given the green light to return home.
Sat, 02 Jul 2022 05:31:16 GMTBlind People in Cameroon Allege Police Abuse During Protests
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Blind people in Cameroon were protesting this week against job discrimination when according to witnesses, police bundled them up and dumped them outside the city. Despite the alleged abuse, the protests continue.
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 05:48:29 GMTSeparatists-for-Hire Suspected in Intercommunal Killings
[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- Villagers in a western Cameroon town bordering Nigeria say armed men carried out a series of attacks from June 25 to 27, killing at least 30 people, including five Nigerians, and forcing hundreds to flee.
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 05:33:29 GMTKillings, Kidnappings, Stripping Girls Naked Part of Cameroon Separatist Abuses, HRW Says
[RFI] Killing and attacking civilians, attacking education facilities, kidnapping workers, stripping schoolgirls naked and beating them are just a few of the abuses Cameroonian separatists have carried out on the civilian population in the Anglophone...
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...