June 27, 2022
Cameroon: New Report Blames Separatists in Cameroon for Gross Human Rights Violations
A Human Rights Watch report released Monday says separatists in Cameroon are increasingly brutal in their attacks. Human Rights Watch says separatists have committed murders, are… Read more »
June 24, 2022
Cameroon: Govt Deploys Hundreds of Troops to Protect 40,000 People Displaced By Boko Haram
Cameron has deployed hundreds of troops along its border with Nigeria after attacks by Boko Haram militants forced more than 40,000 villagers over the past two months to flee the… Read more »
June 23, 2022
Cameroon: Govt Woos Potential Disapora Investors, but Faces Distrust
Cameroon's President Paul Biya has for the first time sent a delegation to Europe to try to encourage well-off Cameroonians living there to invest back home. But members of… Read more »
June 20, 2022
Cameroon: Women Refugees in Cameroon Struggle to Survive
Cameroon hosts about 460,000 refugees and asylum-seekers, most of them women and children who escaped violence in the Central African Republic and Nigeria. But while they have… Read more »
June 16, 2022
Cameroon: Cameroon, Central African Republic Agree to Demarcate Border
Cameroon and the Central African Republic have agreed to demarcate several hundred kilometers of their shared border. The countries have have competing claims to villages and towns… Read more »
June 14, 2022
Cameroon: Cameroonians Protest After Hospital Torched
In Cameroon, hundreds of people have protested attacks on schools, churches, and clinics in the country's troubled west after a hospital in the city of Mamfe was torched.… Read more »
June 09, 2022
Cameroon: Govt Deploys Troops After Deadly Separatist Attack On Military Post
Cameroon's military on Thursday said it deployed about a hundred troops to the French-speaking village of Njitapon, after 35 anglophone separatists attacked the outpost. Read more »
June 08, 2022
Cameroon: Troops Kill 9 Civilians in Separatist Region
Cameroon's military says it has arrested four of its troops for the killing of nine civilians, including four women and a baby. A military spokesman says the troops fired on… Read more »
June 07, 2022
Cameroon: Children Protest Abuses in Separatist Conflict
Several hundred children marched through the streets of Cameroon's capital, Yaoundé, on June 6 holding placards that called for an end to the use of child soldiers in the… Read more »
June 04, 2022
Cameroon: Cameroon, CAR Join Forces to Fight Rebels On Border
A commission of senior security and state officials from the troubled Central African Republic and Cameroon has agreed to jointly fight armed C.A.R. rebels they say are fleeing… Read more »
June 02, 2022
Central Africa: Central African Republic Refugees Leave Cameroon On Promises of Peace
Central African Republic refugees in Cameroon have started returning home after fleeing political and sectarian violence there since 2014. There are around 300,000 C.A.R. refugees… Read more »
May 31, 2022
Cameroon: Military Frees Senator, Other Separatist Hostages
Cameroon's military says it has freed a senator who was held captive by separatists for a month along with other hostages. Read more »
May 29, 2022
Cameroon: Donors Distribute Sanitary Pads to Girls Displaced By Crisis On World Menstrual Hygiene Day
Cameroon observed World Menstrual Hygiene Day Saturday with donors and health workers distributing reusable sanitary pads to several hundred poor girls displaced by terrorism and… Read more »
May 27, 2022
Gabon: Cameroon, Gabon Agree to Better Demarcate Border, Stop Conflict
Officials from Gabon and Cameroon have agreed to retrace their nearly 300-kilometer border and to stop frequent clashes between border communities. At a meeting in Cameroon's… Read more »
May 25, 2022
Cameroon: Police Rescue 70 Children From Illegal Detention Camp
Police in northern Cameroon said they have freed 70 children from an illegal disciplinary camp, where the children say they were left by their parents to be chained and beaten.… Read more »
May 23, 2022
Cameroon: Villagers Protest Iron Ore Mining Deal with China
Cameroonian authorities say Monday several hundred civilians took to the streets of Lolabe, a small coastal village on the banks of the Atlantic Ocean. The civilians said they were… Read more »
May 20, 2022
Cameroon: Violence, Lockdown, Running Battles Paralyze Cameroon Day in Western Regions
Cameron's National Day on May 20 has been marked by running battles between government troops and separatists who imposed a lockdown, crippling business in English-speaking western… Read more »
May 14, 2022
Cameroon: Rights Group Accuses Cameroon Police of Abuses Against LGBTI People
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Cameroonian security forces are not protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex, or LGBTI, people from violent attacks and are instead… Read more »
May 09, 2022
Cameroon: Cameroonian Villagers Protest Renewed Boko Haram Violence
Villagers along Cameroon's northern border with Chad and Nigeria have been holding daily protests in front of government offices demanding that the military intervene and deploy… Read more »
May 08, 2022
Cameroon: Calls for Better Collaboration With Red Cross Workers
World Red Cross Day, May 8, has been observed in Cameroon with hundreds of Red Cross workers in towns and villages across the central African state asking for greater recognition… Read more »
April 15, 2021
Cameroon: Abuses of LGBTQ People Increasing in Cameroon - Rights Activists
Human Rights Watch said in a report this week that LGBTQ people are suffering a fresh wave of persecution in Cameroon, where same-sex relations are illegal. Read more »
March 11, 2020
Cameroon: In Face of Threats, Lawyer Defends LGBTQIA Community
In a country where homosexuality is criminalized, Alice Nkom was the first lawyer in Cameroon to defend suspected gay people. For this, she says she has faced attacks and… Read more »