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africanews
February 28, 2018
Separatists under the banner of the so-called Ambazonia Defense Forces (ADF) have claimed responsibility for a missing government official in the restive northwest region. The ADF said it had kidnapped an administrative official near the town of Batibo, some 40km from the regional capital Bamenda.
News24
February 26, 2018
Yaound - An administrative official was snatched over the weekend from one of Cameroon's restive English-speaking regions in the second such kidnapping in a fortnight, state media reported on ... Regional police officials confirmed the kidnapping to CrTV, saying they had recovered his burnt-out vehicle.
UN News
February 26, 2018
In Cameroon, Ms. Mueller met with the minister of External Relations and the governor of the Far North. Visiting the Zamai internally displaced people (IDP) site and Minawao refugee camp, she saw first-hand the impact of the deteriorating security situation in the Lake Chad basin. In the region, CameroonÃâà...
africanews
February 21, 2018
Cameroon: information minister speaks with Africanews on crisis [The Morning Call]. Cameroon: information minister speaks with ... Cameroon's government says normalcy has returned to the troubled English speaking regions of the country. Separatists in the country's restive anglophone regions haveÃâà...
Voice of America
February 13, 2018
Cameroonian authorities continue to search for a senior regional official kidnapped Sunday by suspected separatist militants in the country's English-speaking northwest. The abduction followed the killing of three gendarmes that same day amid violence in other anglophone towns as officials tried toÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Ursula Mueller, UN Assistant-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, has said more than 60 suicide attacks were carried out by the Boko Haram insurgency in Cameroon in 2017. The UN Official made the remark recently while wrapping up her visit to Cameroon where she called on the internationalÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
The International Olympic Committee has lifted a doping ban against Russia, restoring the country's rights in full, Russian officials said on Wednesday. ... The government has denied any state involvement in the plot but a top sports official Vitaly Mutko, currently a deputy prime minister, was suspended byÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
A judge in Lagos on Wednesday ordered the confiscation of two multi-million-dollar penthouses in the latest seizure of assets linked to Nigeria's former oil minister. Diezani Alison-Madueke — who was also the first female president of OPEC — served under former president Goodluck Jonathan until 2015.
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Cameroon's Prime Minister, Philemon Yang, has cautioned government officials against using first class flights for missions. PM Yang in a circular date February 23, urged heads of state-owned enterprises, officials of companies and public institutions to make all their air travel abroad in business class andÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Replacing Mouzalas in the politically sensitive role will be Dimitris Vitsas, former deputy defence minister and a member of Tspiras' left-wing Syriza party. The reshuffle followed the dismissal of junior labour minister Rania Antonopoulos and the resignation of her husband, economy minister DimitriÃâà...
