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Cameroon police detain hundreds of teachers over pay protest

Over 200 teachers have been detained in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde. The teachers according to reports were planning to hold a protest demanding better conditions of service when they were arrested. They had set out early this week to demand delayed financial benefits and allowances. A member of the aggrieved teachers said their payments promised since 2017 had not been honoured hence their move. The BBC Afrique quotes a leader […]

today2 March 2018

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Cameroon receives separatist leader, 46 others deported from Nigeria

The government of Cameroon on Monday (January 29, 2018) announced that forty seven secessionists had been extradited from Nigeria. In a press conference in the capital Younde, Information Minister, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, said among the 47 was self-acclaimed leader of the Ambazonia secessionist group, Ayuk Tabe Julius. According to the minister, the extradited group “were handed to Cameroonian judiciary, before which they will be tried for their crimes. The government […]

today30 January 2018

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A youth shot dead in Cameroon’s troubled Anglophone region

A young man from Cameroon’s English-speaking region was shot dead by security forces on the eve of an expected symbolic declaration of independence by anglophone separatists, medical and security forces told AFP on Sunday. A nurse who requested anonymity told AFP “They fired at him during a security operation” in the city of Kumba,”. The incident was confirmed by a security source and several local residents contacted by phone. Kumba […]

today2 October 2017

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Trial over Cameroon’s Anglophone protests exposes divide

The trial of three English-speaking protesters facing the death penalty opened at a military court in Cameroon on Monday in a case that has exposed national divisions and stoked opposition to Francophone President Paul Biya. Since October, people in Cameroon's two western English-speaking regions have joined protests against what they say is their marginalization by the French-speaking majority under Biya's 35-year rule. At least six protesters have been shot dead […]

today14 February 2017

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Schools remain closed in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions

Many schools in the english-speaking region of Cameroon remain closed as tensions between the Francophone and Anglophone regions mount. The english speaking regions says they are being politically and economically sidelined by the Francophone government. Over 100 people were arrested and one person killed in November last year in the north-western town of Bamenda, following days of violent protests over the issue. French is spoken in eight of Cameroon’s 10 […]

today3 February 2017

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Cameroon President vows probe after rail crash kills 75

Cameroon's President Paul Biya on Sunday pledged to investigate the causes of a rail crash that killed at least 75 people, as rescue workers scoured wreckage for more bodies. The packed passenger train carrying more than 1,400 people between the capital Yaounde and the central African country's port city of Douala derailed on Friday near the town of Eseka, causing carriages to flip over at high speed. Two days later, […]

today24 October 2016

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