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YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — At least 27 people were killed and more than 50 were injured in floods set off by heavy rains in Cameroon’s capital, authorities said Monday as rescuers intensified ...
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroonian President Paul Biya secured approval from lawmakers on Tuesday to delay parliamentary and local elections until 2026, a move opposition parties fear could make it ...
Anglophone Crisis. The Anglophone Crisis (French: Crise anglophone), also known as the Ambazonia War, [11] is an ongoing armed conflict in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, between the Cameroonian government and Ambazonian separatist groups, part of the long-standing Anglophone problem. [12]
On 16 September 2021, two Ambazonian separatist groups, namely the Bambalang Marine Forces and Jaguars of Bamessing, ambushed a military convoy near Bamessing, Ngo-Ketunjia. The ambush was one of the deadliest single separatist attacks so far in the Anglophone Crisis, [1] and led to the announcement of a "paradigm shift" by Cameroon's Defense ...
Mimi Mefo. Mimi Mefo Newuh (born May 16, 1989; with the maiden name Takambou in Baleng, Cameroon) [1] is a Cameroonian journalist and human rights activist who reports on the Anglophone Crisis and advocates for press freedom. She went into exile in England following a tweet related to the conflict [2] in Cameroon and subsequent incarceration.
The death toll from a weekend building collapse in Cameroon's commercial hub Douala has risen to 34 from an earlier estimate of 12, the housing and urban development minister said on Monday. "The ...
This is a timeline of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon during 2022.. The Anglophone Crisis is an ongoing armed conflict in the Republic of Cameroon in Central Africa, where historically English-speaking Ambazonian separatists are seeking the independence of the former British trust territory of Southern Cameroons, which was unified with Cameroon since 1961.
Factions of secessionist militias have been battling government troops in Cameroon's two English-speaking regions since 2017, leading to thousands of deaths and displacing nearly 800,000 people.