Tag: Cameroon

80 people including children kidnapped in Cameroon

YAOUNDE: As many as 80 people, mostly school children, were kidnapped in the city of Bamenda in northwest Cameroon early on Monday, a foreign...

Women protest abuses in Cameroon Anglophone separatist fight

BAMENDA: Hundreds of women gathered for an angry protest in Cameroon on Friday against abuses committed in months of fighting between the government and...

Cameroon arrests four soldiers suspected of executing women and children

  YAOUNDE: Cameroon has arrested four soldiers suspected of shooting dead two women and two children in the country's far north where its army is...

Cameroon lashes US over ‘abuses’ in anglophone crisis

YAOUNDÉ: Cameroon's government has blasted the United States for accusing its forces of abuses, including "targeted killings," in an English-speaking region of the country...

US accuses Cameroon of ‘targeted killings’ in anglophone crisis

    YAOUNDÉ: The US ambassador to Cameroon on Friday accused government forces of carrying out "targeted killings" and other abuses in the fight against militants...

Cameroon separatist leader apprehended in Nigeria

ABUJA: A leading member of a separatist movement in Cameroon has been taken into custody in the capital of neighbouring Nigeria with his aides,...

Hurricane Harvey back ashore, hits Louisiana

The storm returned to land about eight kilometres west of Cameron with maximum sustained winds of 72 kph.

15 killed in Cameroon militant attack

A total of 35 houses were torched in the attack which happened around 11:00 pm (2200 GMT) according to a local vigilante group member.

Cameroon footballer dies after collapsing on pitch

Dinamo Bucharest and Cameroon midfielder Patrick Ekeng died on Friday after collapsing on the pitch during a match for his club. Ekeng, 26, fell to...