Serge Kouoh Kolla, The Brain Behind NQSA

  By Dean Mongo Eyieh He may be the most unheralded member of Njalla Quan Sports Academy, NQSA, but the club’s Technical Director Kouoh Koulla Jean Serges is the driving force behind the success of the academy. After years of stagnation on the pitch and a state of wholescale disrepair the master tactician has helped…

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Cameroon sees more vigilante groups against insecurity in Anglophone regions

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, Benoît Emvoutu Mbita, prefect of…

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Violent Conflicts, Looting Reported in Cameroon Commercial Town of Sangmelima

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, especially youths armed with machetes,…

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Freeing Cameroon’s Separatists ‘good gesture’-Expert

Anadolu Agency | Cameroon President Paul Biya’s decision to order the release of separatists and opposition leader earlier this month is an important gesture of appeasement, experts say. Maurice Kamto, Cameroon’s main opposition leader, regained his freedom on Oct. 5 after a military court in the country’s capital Yaounde, ordered his release at the request…

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Four kidnapped, 11 injured in Cameroon separatist attack

Xinhua | At least 11 plantation workers were seriously injured and four others abducted Monday night by armed separatists in Tiko, a locality in Cameroon’s restive English-speaking region of Southwest, according to local authorities. Four of the injured workers on a rubber plantation of state-owned Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) were rushed to the hospital early…

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Paul Biya is back in charge after tactical manoeuvres

  The Africa Report | Paul Biya is playing a tactical masterclass. From the release of opposition leader Maurice Kamto and Anglophone militants, to the conclusions of the Great National Dialogue, the Cameroon president is hoping to avoid letting the federalism genie out of the bottle. Tired but beaming, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute hands…

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