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Cameroon · CameroonTwo teachers were kidnapped early Monday in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region of Northwest, according to local and security sources. Schools in Southern Cameroons resumed classes Monday for the last term of the academic year after a two-week holiday. The teachers were on their way to school when gunmen, identified by locals as separatist fighters, ambushed and abducted them in the region’s Njap village. “They (gunmen) took them (teachers) int…See the Story
Southern Cameroons Crisis: 2 teachers abducted in the North West – Cameroon Concord News
Cameroon · CameroonAt least six people, including a soldier and five separatists, have lost their lives following a Cameroonian military raid on a locality in the war-torn North West region, local and security sources said Thursday. The raid occurred on Wednesday night in Bamfem, situated in the Bui division. Government forces launched a coordinated assault on a separatist hideout, leading to clashes with separatist fighters, said a military official in the region…See the Story
Southern Cameroons Crisis: 6 killed in military offensive in Bui Division – Cameroon Intelligence Report
Cameroon · CameroonA Journalist’s son confessed to have slaughtered his mother in Yaoundé the nation’s capital whose death recently sparked national anger. Batek Yebel Landry a notorious drug addict and gambler admitted to murdering Louisette Ngo Yebel his mother a few hours after he was arrested by police officers. Many wrongfully thought the killing was ordered by top CPDM figures as she uncovered networks of corruption in the Ministry of Environment and was kno…See the Story
Louisette Ngo Yebel: Son guilty of killing journalist – Cameroon Concord News
Boko Haram · CameroonPresident Paul Biya on Tuesday dismissed two senior army officers in Cameroon’s far north following Boko Haram attacks in which at least seven people were killed and the wife of a senior official was kidnapped. Militants of the Nigerian Islamist group seized the wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister and killed at least three people on Sunday in an attack in the northern town of Kolofata involving more than 200 assailants. At least four soldiers…See the Story
Biya fires two army officers after Boko Haram raids – Cameroon Concord News
Immigration · CameroonThree migrants died in a highway accident in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca, authorities said Thursday. At least two of the dead — a man and a woman — are from the African nation of Cameroon, and the identity of the third is being checked. Five more migrants were injured and are being treated at local hospitals. The country’s National Immigration Institute did not immediately identify the cause of the crash, or provide information on the co…See the Story
2 Cameroonians killed in a truck accident in southern Mexico – Cameroon Intelligence Report
Military · Far NorthTroops from Chad and Cameroon have freed scores of civilians who were kidnapped for ransom or to fight with jihadist groups on both sides of the two central African states’ border. Military officials from both countries say the number of civilian kidnappings has increased along the border, with several hundred people still in captivity. Cameroon’s military said Tuesday it received five civilians — a 54-year-old man and four people between 17 and…See the Story
Cameroon and Chad government troops free scores of hostages – Cameroon Concord News
Cameroon · CameroonPolice in Cameroon fired tear gas on Saturday morning as they clashed with residents fighting eviction from a neighbourhood adjacent to Newton Airport in the country’s economic capital Douala. An official said inhabitants of the informal settlement, known locally as Fret Aeroport, were illegally occupying government land and that they would not be compensated. Some residents, many of whom have lived next to the airport for decades despite repeat…See the Story
Douala: police tear gas residents fighting eviction near airport – Cameroon Concord News
Cameroon · CameroonArsene Salomon Mbani Zogo, known as “Martinez’, was abducted in January last year. The 50-year-old anti-corruption campaigner had often singled out government officials by name, earning the ire of powerful figures. Those on trial include Leopold Maxime Eko Eko, the then-director of Cameroon’s powerful military intelligence service.See the Story
