POLITICS

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 …

YAOUNDE, Nov. 11 Xinhua  | Legislative and municipal elections will hold in Anglophone regions of Cameroon despite growing threats from armed separatists, officials of the Elections Cameroon (Elecam) said on Monday. Chairperson of Elecam Enow Abrams Egbe said the eagerness demonstrated during the registration process in the troubled regions was a clear sign …

YAOUNDE, Nov. 4 Xinhua  | One person died and over 20 others were rescued after a long and narrow canoe sank on Monday off Idenau, a seaside resort town in south-western Cameroon, according to the Cameroon Navy. Survivors said local fishermen were the first to arrive and rescue passengers when the canoe started …

MENAFN  | Local authorities said that 7 armed separatists and a separatist commander known as Wazuzu died on Monday in a clash that erupted in Muyuka in Cameroon. The separatists were killed as government forces launched an attack on their camp. Some of them fled with critical wounds but no government officials …

YAOUNDE, Oct. 15 Xinhua | Community defense forces, otherwise known as vigilante groups, are growing in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions of Northwest and Southwest for crime crackdown, local authorities said Monday. Growing kidnapping for ransom and armed robbery had prompted communities to form vigilante groups to track down the perpetrators, …

SANGMELIMA, CAMEROON VOA | Several hundred people from Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea have escaped the southern Cameroon commercial town of Sangmelima following violent conflicts and looting between communities there, where townspeople claim outsiders are causing mounting insecurity. Cameroon has deployed at least 300 troops to Sangmelima. Hundreds of people, …