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The death toll from a weekend building collapse in Cameroon's commercial hub Douala has risen to 34 from an earlier estimate of 12, the housing and urban development minister said on Monday. "The ...
This is a timeline of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon during 2024.. The Anglophone Crisis is an ongoing armed conflict in the Republic of Cameroon in Central Africa, where historically English-speaking Ambazonian separatists are seeking the independence of the former British trust territory of Southern Cameroons, which was unified with Cameroon since 1961.
The attack was regarded as notable because Matouke is located less than 40 kilometers from Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon. [49] In Mamu near Ekona, Muyuka, at least six people were killed and more were wounded in a raid by the Cameroonian Army. [50] On May 7, a journalist was killed by separatist fighters in a bar in Bamenda. [51]
Protest in Kumba against school attacks. The attack was condemned by United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and UNICEF Executive Director, Henrietta Fore.Matthias Z. Naab, the Humanitarian Coordinator in Cameroon, stated that he was "shocked and outraged by the killing of innocent school children which were attending school to get an education".
The National Police of Cameroon stated that a man with a similar name as Fankem was a clothing vendor near Douala and provided Canadian investigators with pictures of Fankem in his youth and in England. [1] [2] Fankem moved to Britain and was registered to the British Home Office as Cameroonian national Bouon Emmanuel Fébile, born September 13 ...
Such organisations and the Cameroon Bar Council spoke out against the trials, deeming them summary and secretive, with extreme sentences. [13] [16] A lawyer in Yaoundé claimed that defendants were being given no time to prepare a defence, [12] and a lawyer in Douala said there was evidence the detainees had been beaten and tortured. [17]
The Anglophone Crisis (French: Crise anglophone), also known as the Ambazonia War, [11] is an ongoing armed conflict in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, between the Cameroonian government and Ambazonian separatist groups, part of the long-standing Anglophone problem. [12]
On May 19, the Cameroon Army killed a separatist commander known as "Lion Dor" and his girlfriend in Oku. [80] On May 20, multiple clashes between the Cameroon Army and separatists took place in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon during the National Day. The Cameroonian Army claimed at least 28 separatists were killed during the battles ...