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The Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) on Friday said that over 34,000 Cameroonians, were currently taking refuge in six local government areas of the state. Mr John Inaku, the Director General of SEMA in the state, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency …...

A government crackdown in two regions of Cameroon where English-speaking separatists are campaigning for an independent state has inflamed the crisis, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. In a 37-page report, the human-rights watchdog said it had catalogued unlawful killings, destruction of...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reassured Cameroonian Authority that Nigeria territory would not be used as a staging area to destabilise Cameroon. Buhari was quoted as making the pledge in a communiqué issued at the end of 6th session of the Cameroon-Nigeria Trans-Border Security Committee held...

Senate yesterday summoned the minister of Defence, Mr Mansur Dan Ali, to appear before it and proffer explanations why Camerounian soldiers and refugees are invading the Nigerian territory without check. The Upper Chamber noted the influx of Refugees from the Republic of Cameroun to some border...

Nigeria’s leading scorer in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers Victor Moses, skipper Mikel Obi and comebacking striker Odion Ighalo risk a second booking in Yaounde, which could cause them to be banned for next month’s qualifying game at home against Zambia. A second booking in the qualifiers will...

Cameroon staged a dramatic comeback against Egypt on Sunday to emerge the winner of the 2017 African Nations cup in Gabon. Arsenal midfielder Mohamed Elneny, who returned to Egypt's starting line-up after an injury, put Egypt in front from inside the box after 22 minutes. Cameroon's...

English-speaking regions of Cameroon have now been without the internet for more than a week following recent protests in the country. This shutdown comes after the government outlawed at least two Anglophone groups - Southern Cameroons National Council and the Cameroon Anglophone Civil...

A suicide bombing by a Boko Haram jihadist has killed 11 people in northern Cameroon, a provincial governor said Thursday, warning civilians not to breach special security measures aimed at preventing such attacks. It was the latest in a spate of raids blamed on the Nigeria-based Islamist...

French President, Francois Hollande, who arrived Aso Rock Villa, Abuja on Saturday is currently holding talks with President Mohammadu Buhari over the incessant menace of Boko haram in Nigeria. According to Guardian, President Buhari is currently ting talks on Boko Haram with Hollande, leaders...

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday evening disclosed that over 56,000 Nigerians are currently taking refuge in neighbouring Cameroon because of the activities of the Boko Haram sect in the North Eastern part of the country. The president bemoaned the terror unleashed by the dreaded...

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with his Cameroonian counterpart, President Paul Biya behind closed doors inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Biya who is on a two-day official visit to Nigeria arrived the Presidential Villa with his wife, Chantal, and other members...

The Federal Government has started the process of verifying the claim by a suspected female suicide bomber who was intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up that she is one of the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State in April 2014. The...

The Nigerian Army has disclosed that 23 Boko Haram terrorists have been killed, while 150 hostages rescued as Nigeria/Cameroon troops continue to clear out terrorists’ hideouts in Talala and Kumshe axis of Borno State. According to a statement issued by the acting Director, Army Public...

The two female bombers “blew themselves up at 6:20 am, just when people who had spent the night there were preparing for a meal”, Police source said. A police source in the region said several children, including a boy aged six and a 15-year-old, were among the victims. At least one member of a...

Chief Bisong Etahoben, an international investigative journalist and traditional ruler revealed how a jealous wife from Kerawa North in Cameroon exposed her husband who she claims trains girls, arm them and sends them as suicide bombers to wreck havoc and claim many lives. Etahoben, made the...

About five women in Cameroon women working on a farm of onions in Tolkomari were abducted yesterday by Boko Haram fighters. It will be recalled that Camerooon aunthority announced the use witches and wizards to fight and destroy the sect who have kidnapped women and killed thousands. Local...

Cameroonian president, Paul Biya has approved the use of Witchcraft to fight Boko Haram in the country... Related report: Cameroon Chiefs Demands Permission to Fight Boko Haram with Witchcraft See tweet:

Cameroon has closed most of its markets along the border with north eastern Nigeria following the deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram terrorists. Midjiyawa Bakaris, governor of Cameroon’s Far North region, said the markets were to remain closed until further notice during a televised speech on...

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders have been urged to ban the wearing of full-face veils by Muslim women as part of an effort to limit the growing number of Boko Haram female suicide bombings. ECOWAS President Kadre Desire Ouedraogo told Vanguard at the close of a...