Africa: Cameroon

Cameroon: Victims of Boko Haram attacks feel abandoned in the Far North

Dec 11, 2019

At least 275 people have been killed and others mutilated or kidnapped during a resurgence of Boko Haram attacks in the ...

Officials say Cameroon's army has launched a rescue operation to find the 17 kidnapped youths. By ALEXIS HUGUET (AFP)

Boko Haram kidnaps 17 youths in north Cameroon: of...

Dec 6, 2019

Boko Haram militants have kidnapped17 children and youths, some as young as 11, in the north of Cameroon near the Nigeri ...

Cameroon Minister urges experts to render big data...

Dec 4, 2019

ldquo;By 2030, revenues generated by big data in Africa will reach 10 billion dollars, but how much of this will sta ...

Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute presides over the opening of a national dialogue on the anglophone crisis in September 2019. By Stringer (AFP/File)

US urges devolution of power in Cameroon

Nov 19, 2019

The United States on Tuesday urged Cameroon to devolve power in its troubled anglophone region, saying the government's ...

The separatist violence has killed more than 3,000 people in two years. By MARCO LONGARI (AFP/File)

Cameroon plans February polls under shadow of viol...

Nov 16, 2019

Cameroon is poised to hold parliamentary and municipal elections in February but a bloody separatist conflict and politi ...

Cameroon's Paul Biya has been president since 1982. By Ludovic MARIN (AFP)

Citing rights violations, US cuts Cameroon trade b...

Nov 1, 2019

The United States will end certain preferential trade benefits for Cameroon in January due to the country's poor human r ...

Cameroon's crisis of identity

Oct 30, 2019

In Cameroon in late 2016, English-speaking lawyers and teachers peacefully protested against the use of French in the na ...

The disaster followed two days of torrential rain in the city of Bafoussam. By - (AFP)

Cameroon rescuers hunt for victims after deadly la...

Oct 30, 2019

Cameroon rescue workers resumed a grim search for victims Wednesday after torrential rains triggered a mudslide that swe ...

Samuel Eto'o says he has no plans to go into politics after retiring from playing in September. By PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU (AFP/File)

Cameroon footballing legend Eto'o rules out career...

Oct 30, 2019

Samuel Eto'o is up there with George Weah as an African great on the football field, but he says he has no plans to foll ...

A woman walks past Rapid Intervention Battalion members as they patrol in the city of Buea in October 2018. CPJ and others are calling on the ACHPR to address human rights violations in Cameroon's Anglophone regions. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)

African Union Must Act On Cameroon’s Human Rights ...

Oct 30, 2019

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 64 other civil society organizations in calling on the African Commission ...

Heavily armed gendarmes in Buea, capital of Cameroon's South-West region, one of the two territories where separatists took up arms in 2017. By MARCO LONGARI (AFP/File)

Cameroon peace prospects slim in wake of national ...

Oct 30, 2019

A month after Cameroon held a national dialogue hoping to resolve the country's bloody anglophone separatist crisis, the ...

Map of Cameroon locating deadly landslide in the western city of Bafoussam. By (AFP)

At least 42 perish in Cameroon landslide

Oct 30, 2019

At least 42 people were killed after their houses were swept away Tuesday in a landslide caused by torrential rain in th ...

Berlin-based Cameroonian journalist denied Austral...

Oct 26, 2019

The award-winning Cameroonian journalist Mimi Mefo, who works for Deutsche Welle in Germany, was denied a visa to Austra ...

Secret home: The video club in Yaounde is a haven for gay men in a country where same-sex relations are illegal. By STR (AFP)

Secret video club gives respite to gay men in Came...

Oct 25, 2019

The club is secret. You have to know someone who will guide you to the address -- off a busy street in Cameroon's capita ...

Cameroonian entrepreneur couple Walter and Cindy Tchassem are at the centre of a music and restaurant business empire in Russia. By Dimitar DILKOFF (AFP)

With music and burger empire, Cameroon couple livi...

Oct 23, 2019

Decked out in gold jewellery and high-end fashion, Walter and Cindy Tchassem descend on a Moscow fast-food joint escorte ...

Cameroonian opposition leader Maurice Kamto was greeted and acclaimed by hundreds of supporters. By STRINGER (AFP/File)

Cameroon's Biya seeks to douse crises with surpris...

Oct 7, 2019

Cameroonian ruler Paul Biya's surprise decision to free hundreds of detained opponents after a stinging crackdown on sep ...

Cameroon's main opposition leader Maurice Kamto was greeted by dozens of cheering, dancing young people on his release from jail. By STRINGER (AFP)

Cameroon main opposition leader Kamto released

Oct 6, 2019

Cameroon's main opposition leader Maurice Kamto walked free from jail Saturday after a military court ordered his releas ...