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Cameroon

Aerial view of the crater Nyos lake in Cameroon. - Wikipedia/Domaine public

'An invisible avalanche': what happened in Cameroon's 1986 Lake Nyos disaster?

Aug 21, 2026 | Cameroon

The village of Nyos, in north-west Cameroon, was a peaceful place. On that day, its people carried out their work as usu ...

Aug 21, 2026 | Cameroon

Biya, the world's oldest serving head of state, landed in the Cameroonian capital Yaoundé on Thursday after travelling f ...

Aug 20, 2026 | Cameroon

President Paul Biya returned to Cameroon on Thursday after a 73-day absence that fuelled speculation about the 93-year-o ...

Aug 20, 2026 | Cameroon

Cameroon's President Paul Biya has returned to the country after a more than two-month absence that has fuelled fierce d ...

Aug 17, 2026 | Cameroon

Thousands of Cameroonians gathered in Yaounde on Monday to celebrate the national football team after they won their fir ...

Aug 3, 2026 | Cameroon

In an exclusive interview with RFI, the Minister of Communication and government spokesperson, René Emmanuel Sadi, annou ...

Jul 26, 2026 | Cameroon

New Bell Prison in Douala is a world unto itself mdash; chaotic, overcrowded, feared mdash; yet unexpectedly alive wit ...

Jul 25, 2026 | Cameroon

The lengthy absence of Cameroon's long-serving President Paul Biya, who has been in Switzerland since early June, has re ...

Jul 16, 2026 | Cameroon

Dozens of students and parents attended the march on Tuesday, after Cameroonian students were informed, in a statement f ...

Jun 15, 2026 | Cameroon

The former minister, now living in exile in The Gambia, said on Friday that the complaints relate to the crackdown on pr ...

Apr 17, 2026 | Cameroon

A jubilant crowd gathered in stifling heat Friday for a giant open-air mass by Pope Leo XIV at a stadium in Cameroon's e ...

Apr 17, 2026 | Cameroon

Tens of thousands of people streamed towards a stadium in Cameroon's economic capital Douala Friday for a huge, open-air ...

Apr 16, 2026 | Cameroon

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday criticised the tyrants ransacking the world, on a high-security visit to a bloodstained reg ...