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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 …

KRCC  | In Cameroon’s Bamiléké culture, a woman gives birth to her child surrounded by the entire family. The following days are filled with post-birth customs and traditions. Rosine Mbakam, a Cameroonian filmmaker, did not get to experience these traditions. She gave birth to her first son in Belgium in 2012, alone …

TOKYO The Mainichi  | Three Cameroonian nationals have been served fresh arrest warrants on suspicion of accepting funds remitted to a bank account while knowing they were obtained through “romance fraud” activities, police said on Oct. 2. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Organized Crime Control Section served the warrants to the trio, including a …

  By Basil K Mbuye Children in the Tiko Municipality proved that there was an unending stream of talent their midst during the maiden edition of the Tiko Got Talent show that was held at the Council hall recently. The council hall was overflowing with people of all walks of …

The Organization for World Peace  | On September 10th, the president of Cameroon, Paul Biya, gave a speech that Cameroonians expected would finally address the Anglophone crisis occurring throughout the northwest and southwest regions of Cameroon. Given that public addresses by Biya are rare, the announcement was a surprising development and raised …

YAOUNDE, Sept. 17 Xinhua  | The Cameroonian government on Tuesday expressed outrage following the “barbaric” murder of a woman in Momo, a department of Northwest Province, one of the two troubled Anglophone regions of the country. The woman was “buried alive in a shallow grave” by “armed secessionist group” on Monday in a …

Martin fled Cameroon when security forces imprisoned his father and started regularly raiding Anglophone villages. The U.S. government might send him back. Martin heard the French-speaking policemen before he could see them. It was the first day of September in 2017 and he had been picking plantains on the far …

By Basil K Mbuye The Nsioh Nkioh Charity Association, NNCA, has inspired hope in internally displaced women and children who feature great challenges in the Southwest region as a result of the ongoing Anglophone Crisis. Some 100 internally displaced women and children based in Buea from the region received hygiene …

The music world has been such that many singers have decided to opt for pseudonyms not to be confused with another celebrity or to make more glamorous their style. Below is the list of such singers in Cameroon. Tenor Ebanflang, his real name is Mengoumou Ayia Thierry Mr Leo born as Fonyuy …

  -Some members of SOBA USA apartheid failed imposition of leadership. -Mpafe William act like a thug to execute Divide and Rule in SOBA -SOBA Caretaker Committee Writes to SOBA America It was a very tense and highly emotional weekend (24-26 May 2019) in Baltimore USA as SOBANS of SOBA …