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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 ...
14 March - Cameroon bans shisha smoking, becoming the sixth African country to do so. [5] 12 April - Jeune Afrique reveals that the defence ministers of Russia and Cameroon sign a new military cooperation agreement, renewing a similar agreement signed in 2015. [6] 11 May - A small plane crashes in Cameroon with eleven people on board. It is ...
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (5th ed.). London: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-1967-9. Pelican, Michaela (September 2022). "The Anglophone conflict in Cameroon – historical and political background" (PDF). Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Working Paper. No. 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2022.
At least 27 people were killed and more than 50 were injured in floods set off by heavy rains in Cameroon’s capital, authorities said Monday as rescuers intensified the search for those missing ...
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]
Map of military situation in Ambazonia region. Following is a list of militant groups fighting for the independence of Ambazonia, commonly referred to locally as "Amba Boys", in the Anglophone Crisis. It should be recalled that there are other groups involved but their tactics remain nonviolent. Due to the obscure nature of many of the smaller ...
By 2022, both sides regularly launched raids on the territories of one another. In July 2022, tensions flared up in the Northwest Region near the regional capital of Bamenda after Cameroonian troops killed the commander of the pro-Ambazonian Red Dragons .
A Human Rights Watch report after the killings found that nine civilians in Missong (a settlement in Zhoa, Fungom District ) had been killed by the military, relying on testimony from five eyewitnesses and a village elder, [1] describing it as "a reprisal operation against a community suspected of harboring separatist fighters."