POLITICS

    By Basil K Mbuye The Commissioner of the Equipes Spéciales d’Intervention Rapide, ESIR-Buea, Mveng Cyriaque, has prayed for peace to return to the two Anglophone Regions of Cameroon that have been rocked by the socio-political crisis since 2016. Commissioner Mveng, who has been at the helm of the …

    VOA  | Cameroonian separatist fighters have relaunched attacks after the government announced a reconstruction plan, claiming that peace was returning to the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions of the central African state. The military said attacks were reported in at least seven villages, with about 13 fighters killed, but the …

Cameroon’s aged president is coming under fire for his absence from the national stage as the central African country faces a burgeoning coronavirus crisis. A month after the first case of COVID-19 was recorded, 87-year-old Paul Biya has yet to address the nation — a silence that for supporters is a …

  AFP | Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya is coming under fire for his absence from the national stage as the central African country faces a burgeoning coronavirus crisis. A month after the first case of COVID-19 was recorded, 87-year-old has yet to address the nation — a silence that for supporters …

    FOX – The Associated Press  | In this Aug. 19, 2017, file photo released by the Nigeria State House, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, center, walks upon his arrival at the airport in Abuja, Nigeria, after returning from more than three months in London for medical treatment. The coronavirus pandemic could …

    African News Agency (ANA) via msn | A football stadium in Cameroon has been turned into a temporary isolation centre for coronavirus patients as the country grapples to contain a growing number of Covid-19 cases. The military stadium in Yaounde will serve as one of the capacity centres in the …

  VOA  | Ongoing clashes between Cameroon’s separatists and the military have affected nearly two million people, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Many of the displaced have found refuge in the neighboring town of Douala, where they live crowded into small rooms and struggling to get by. Moki Edwin …

  APAnews  | The ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement (RDPC) has won the 13 parliamentary seats contested at stake in 11 constituencies in the country’s anglophone North-West and South-Western regions. After the Constitutional Council closed Thursday’s electoral dispute, all the appeals lodged by the opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF) were rejected. The …

UNITED NATIONS, March 26 (Xinhua) — The United Nations on Thursday welcomed the temporary cease-fire announced by the Southern Cameroons Defense Forces (SOCADEF) following UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ call for a global cease-fire to facilitate the global response to COVID-19, said a UN spokesman. The secretary-general called on other armed groups to …

YAOUNDE VOA  | Cameroon’s military says it has killed 24 separatists who vowed to disrupt Sunday’s election rerun in the country’s English-speaking regions.?The anglophone rebels say the casualties were on the military’s side, but witnesses say a number of those killed were civilians caught up in the fighting. Military commander Brigadier General Valere …