Nigeria won 2-0 on Saturday January 27 at Abidjan’s Stade Félix Houphoüet-Boigny against Cameroon, who never managed to turn the game around. A double from Lookman sent Nigeria straight into the quarter-finals. Even the introduction of Vincent Aboubakar in the 75th minute for his first minutes of action in this …
Read More »Cameroonian troops rescue 8 kidnapped students
Cameroonian troops have rescued eight abducted students of a government school in the country’s war-torn English-speaking region of Northwest, according to reports. “The students were kidnapped by armed terrorists from their school in Esu village in the Menchum division of the region,” reports said. The vice-principal and discipline master of …
Read More »Sylvester Madu escapes assassination in Cameroon
Nollywood star Sylvester Madu was attacked while shooting his next film by armed separatists in the North-West region of Cameroon, bordering neighboring Nigeria. “The Nollywood star was in a snack bar in Bamenda in the North-West, accompanied by his crew, when armed separatists burst in,” according to witnesses. Initially, they …
Read More »Gunmen kill nine in Cameroon market attack
Nine people were killed on Tuesday by gunmen who raided a weekly market in Bamenyam town in the west of Cameroon. The attack on the town, which is located in the French-speaking area of Bamboutos, is suspected to have been carried out by separatist fighters, who want to establish an …
Read More »Villagers killed and homes burned in separatist raid in Cameroon
Suspected separatist rebels have killed at least 20 people during an overnight attack on a village, officials in south-western Cameroon said. Several others were left badly injured and homes were set ablaze in the area known as Manyu. Two Anglophone regions of Cameroon have suffered from relentless violence since 2017 …
Read More »Cameroon media regulator lifts ban on channel promoting homosexuality
Cameroon’s media regulator has lifted its suspension on the TV channel Canal+ Elles, which it sanctioned in September for broadcasting “programmes conveying obscene practices with a homosexual tendency”. The National Communication Council said the channel – a subsidiary of the French media group Canal + International – was allowed to …
Read More »Death toll following landslide in Cameroon rises
The death toll from Sunday’s landslide in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé has risen to 30, with 17 others injured, says the country’s interior minister, who was on site to assess the damage, local media reported. Several homes in Mbankolo, an impoverished neighbourhood, were reduced to rubble following heavy rains. There are …
Read More »Cameroon: troops dig up bodies of kidnapped officials
The remains of five government workers who were kidnapped in Cameroon’s restive South-West region in 2021 have been exhumed in a remote village, after a former separatist fighter who recently surrendered to authorities revealed that they had been killed and buried. He then led security forces to the burial site …
Read More »Reasons why Kylian Mbappé is in Cameroon
French world champion Kylian Mbappé is on vacation in Cameroon to visit the island of Jebalè, his father’s village. While his future with PSG has yet to be fully clarified, Kylian Mbappé is currently treating himself to some vacation time. “The PSG star has been in his ancestral homeland for …
Read More »Separatists kidnap more than 30 women in Cameroon
Separatists have kidnapped over 30 women and injured an unspecified number of others in the northern part of the country, officials have said. in Cameroon’s restive north-western region The women were abducted in Big Babanki, a village near the border with Nigeria, for allegedly protesting against a curfew and taxes …
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