The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Cameroonian authorities to hold to account those behind the detention of four journalists suspected of stealing a minister’s glasses, in a scandal that has led to calls for a boycott of the minister’s events. The journalists were released on Monday without charge. Solange Djuikam spent seven nights in […]
Bishop Michael Miabesue Bibi of the Catholic Diocese of Buea in Cameroon has called on motorbike riders in his Episcopal See to treat their profession as a service to humanity, urging them to protect human life, respect road users, and uphold the dignity of their work, justice and peace. In his homily during the Annual […]
Cameroon’s 94-year-old president, Paul Biya is back in Switzerland following a serious malaise. The man whose supporters hold that is in good shape collapsed last week and could not sit on a medicalised ambulance which waited at the Nsimalen Airport for two days. Biya recently returned from Europe after more than two months abroad due […]
Hundreds of people have fled their homes after an armed group killed 15 people in the village of Madegoua near the town of Makary in the Far North region of Cameroon. The attack on Wednesday triggered a wave of displacement from 10 nearby villages. Several hundred people fled towards Kousseri and others went farther afield […]
Reports that the Ambazonia Interim Government is preparing to reorganize itself as the Ambazonia People’s Liberation Authority (APLA) would represent a significant structural change for the Southern Cameroons separatist movement, if formally confirmed. The reported transition appears intended to move the organization away from an interim-government framework toward a broader liberation-authority model as the conflict […]