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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Cameroonian authorities have granted the Chinese mining giant Sinosteel Corporation, the very first license to exploit an iron deposit, indicates a document signed by President Paul Biya. According to the document, the Chinese firm will have to pay the State FCFA 22.9 billion in annual revenues. Cameroon is paving the …

Ranked among the richest businesswomen in Cameroon, Françoise Puene, a former donut trader, is now at the head of Franco group, operating in hotel industry. Her fortune is estimated at billions of CFA francs. CEO of the Franco Group, her fortune is without mystery built under the sun in the …

Cameroonian customs authorities announced the seizure of 9000 tramadol tablets last weekend in the South West region of the country. Thanks to concerted actions with law enforcement agencies in the seaside town of Buea, in the southwest region, the smugglers, who specialize in the marketing of counterfeit drugs and especially …