The UK Home Office has announced that the government will stop issuing study visas to nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan. It will also end skilled work visas for Afghans, citing widespread visa abuse.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said the move followed a sharp rise in asylum claims from people who had initially entered the UK legally on study visas. The Home Office said the number of asylum

Belgian prosecutors have announced the arrest of three people as part of a probe into possible crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Cameroon as a result of the country's secessionist rebellion.

The suspects were believed to be leaders of the Ambazonia Defence Forces (ADF), a militia fighting for the independence of Cameroon's two Anglophone regions in what is a mainly French-speaking nation. They have been

The Trump administration is canceling humanitarian aid programs it previously identified as lifesaving, according to an internal State Department email obtained by The Atlantic.

The new round of cuts will reportedly end all U.S. humanitarian

Three Cameroonian soldiers have been sentenced to five to ten years in prison for their role in the killing of at least 21 civilians in the country's Anglophone Northwest region.

A military court had found them guilty of murder, arson, and destruction for the 14 February 2020

Cameroonians have been left in shock following a brutal separatist attack on a remote village in the country's Northwest region, which left more than a dozen people dead or injured. Residents described harrowing scenes of entire families being slain and homes razed to the ground - an escalation that has brought into focus the brutality of the wider conflict plaguing the Anglophone regions.

Estimates from the

Opposition leader Anicet Ekane has died at age 74 after weeks of being held at a military garrison in the capital Yaoundé on charges of hostility against the state, incitement to revolt, and calls for insurrection. His family and lawyers allege he was denied proper medical care despite struggling to breathe. Ekane, head of the Manidem party, was arrested on October 24 after post-election protests.

His death comes

The Super Eagles, who failed to pick the automatic ticket from Group C in the qualifiers, have finished second behind South Africa, which earned them a spot among the best-four losers who contested for the sole African ticket in the playoff.

Opposition politician Issa Tchiroma Bakary has given the Cameroonian government a 48-hour ultimatum to release all those arrested during the country's post-election violence.

Tchiroma, who was a contestant in the election and claimed to be the rightful winner despite official results declaring President Paul Biya victorious, made the demand in a video circulated on social media on Sunday.

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Cameroon's longtime leader, and the world's oldest leader, President Paul Biya, has been sworn in for an eighth consecutive term, vowing to restore order after deadly post-election violence.

In his inaugural speech, Biya promised to stay faithful to the confidence of the Cameroonian people and pledged to work for a ''united, stable and prosperous'' country. He expressed condolences to victims of the

Cameroonian opposition politician, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who declared himself the winner of the October 12 presidential election, has reportedly left the country for neighboring Nigeria. This comes as protests against the official results, which declared President Paul Biya the winner, intensified across the country.

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