POLITICS

BABUNGO, CAMEROON VOA  | Several communities in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions have within a week attacked at least five camps belonging to separatist fighters, whom they accuse of destroying civilian homes, looting and killing innocent people. The angry civilians say they do not know who to trust, as they say the military commits similar …

vonews.net  | The statements of Cardinal Christian Tumi, archbishop emeritus of Douala during the program “The Truth in the face” broadcast, Sunday, December 29, on the Cameroonian television Equinoxe TV aroused great controversy. In this issue, the Patriarch of 89 years spoke on several issues including the Anglophone crisis and relations between …

YAOUNDE, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) — Five officials of Cameroon’s main opposition party, the Social Democratic Front (SDF), have been abducted in Tubah, a locality in Northwest, one of the two troubled Anglophone regions of the country, party officials said on Thursday. Among those kidnapped were the SDF district chairman of Tubah, Peter …

BUEA, CAMEROON VOA  | Large numbers of English-speaking Cameroonians who fled the separatist crisis that has killed more than 3,000 people in three years have been returning to their homes to celebrate the Christmas and New Year holidays. Their return however is limited to major English-speaking towns as their villages remain battle grounds …

Yaounde (Cameroon) (AFP) – Cameroon is poised to hold parliamentary and municipal elections in February but a bloody separatist conflict and political tensions are set to cloud the vote, experts say. Anglophone separatists are fighting government troops in western Cameroon while the north of the country has come under attack …

YAOUNDE VOA  | Thousands of motorcycle taxi drivers blocked streets in Cameroon’s capital on Tuesday, after city officials barred the bikers from accessing certain commercial and residential areas. Officials say the restrictions are needed for security reasons. The bikers say the cutoff hurts their livelihoods. Defying a strong presence of anti-riot police throughout …

  Deutsche Welle  | A group of scholars and human rights advocates has used the launch of the Paris Peace Forum to pressure President Macron to use France’s “considerable influence” to help bring Cameroon’s ongoing conflict to an end. A group of scholars, writers and human rights advocates have penned an open …

Xinhua  | Some 855,000 children are out of school in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon as a result of three years of violence and instability, a UN spokesperson said Tuesday. Two months into the new school year, about 90 percent of the regions’ public primary schools and 77 percent of …

YAOUNDE, Nov. 10 Xinhua  | At least one student of the University of Bamenda in Cameroon’s troubled English-speaking region of Northwest was killed and eight others kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday, according to local authorities. Local police said, the student was shot dead when he resisted to be taken away by the gunmen …

  Xinhua  | Cameroon’s President Paul Biya on Sunday signed a presidential decree announcing elections for members of National Assembly and municipal councillors on February 9, 2020. The two elections were postponed twice due to growing threats from armed separatists in the two English-speaking regions and attacks from Boko Haram terror group …