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Cameroon: International Rights Groups Call for Ceasefire
DW, 27 October 2020
After the latest attack on a school in Cameroon, rights groups want the international community to help stop the fighting between Anglophone separatists and government forces. Read more »
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Cameroon: School Attack Puts Spotlight On Neglected Conflict
DW, 26 October 2020
The massacre of schoolchildren in Cameroon has grabbed global attention. Experts have called for the international community to stop ignoring the Anglophone conflict. Read more »
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Cameroon: UN Shocked and Outraged Over Horrific Attack On School
UN News, 26 October 2020
The United Nations has strongly condemned Saturday's attack on a school in southwestern Cameroon, which claimed the lives of eight children, and wounded another twelve. Read more »
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Cameroon: MSF Activates Emergency Care for Children Aged 10 to 15
MSF, 25 October 2020
Following this morning's school shooting in Kumba, South-West Cameroon, Doctors Without Borders launched a mass casualty plan, responding with our ambulance service and surgical… Read more »
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Cameroon: Gunmen Kill Several Schoolchildren in Cameroon
DW, 24 October 2020
Local witnesses said the ongoing separatist movement was responsible for the bloodshed, but that has yet to be officially confirmed. Authorities vowed they would "hunt and kill"… Read more »
Gunmen Storm Cameroon School, Kill Several Children
At least eight children were killed and a dozen wounded after attackers stormed a school in southwestern Cameroon with guns and machetes, the United Nations has said.. It was not clear if the attack was linked to the ongoing struggle between the army and groups attempting to form a breakaway state called Ambazonia in the English-speaking west. The region has been engulfed by ongoing unrest since 2017 between anglophone separatists and government security forces in two western districts. The conflict has killed 3,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands.
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Cameroonian security forces fired tear gas and water cannons and arrested hundreds of people, mainly opposition party members and supporters, to disperse peaceful protests across ... Read more »
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More than 2,600 records obtained by BuzzFeed News and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists show that banks, money transfer companies and other ... Read more »
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The government and the UN Development Program have announced plans to rebuild the Anglophone regions. Since 2017, this area has been embroiled in a bloody war between national ... Read more »
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General Valere Nka says more than 300 troops were involved in successful raids on rebel Ambazonian camps. He said a good number of rebels were killed and weapons confiscated. Nka ... Read more »
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Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the leader of the quest for an independent Ambazonia in Anglophone Cameroon, has outlined his terms for dialogue with the Yaounde government in a letter ... Read more »
