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Cameroonian President Paul Biya secured approval from lawmakers on Tuesday to delay parliamentary and local elections until 2026, a move opposition parties fear could make it harder for them to ...
In the first half of 2021, rebels inflicted a number of casualties on the Cameroon Armed Forces in the region around Kumbo. [10] [11] In February and March, the Cameroon Armed Forces' 5th Joint Military Region under Brig. Gen. Valere Nka launched another offensive in Bui, termed "Bui 1". Though the military declared this 8-days long operation a ...
15 January – A Cameroonian peacekeeper in MINUSCA is killed and five others are injured in an explosion in Mbindale, Lim-Pendé, Central African Republic. [1]4 July – Brenda Biya [fr], the daughter of President Paul Biya, publicly announces her same-sex relationship using an image kissing another woman, despite same-sex relationships being illegal in Cameroon and punishable by fines and ...
In 2017, they began an insurgency in the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon. [1] On 4 October, two civilians were extrajudicially killed by the Ambazonia Defence Forces , who said that the civilians were Cameroonian spies.
The global fight against malaria took a stride forward on Monday as Cameroon started the world's first routine vaccine programme against the mosquito-borne disease, although Reuters journalists ...
YAOUNDE (Reuters) -Cameroon received its first shipment of Mosquirix malaria vaccines manufactured by British drugmaker GSK Plc late on Tuesday, as the nation struggles with the mosquito-borne ...
The Southern Cameroons Defence Forces (commonly referred to as SOCADEF) is the armed wing of the African People's Liberation Movement, an Ambazonian separatist movement. It is led by Ebenezer Akwanga, [3] who is based in the United States, [4] Together with the Ambazonia Defence Forces, it was one of the most prominent militias fighting in the early Anglophone Crisis. [1]
The United States also condemned the "systematic intimidation based on ethnic and religious affiliation" in Cameroon. [49] In February 2019, the United States decided to cut military aid worth of $17 million over Cameroon's human rights record, as well as withdrawing Cameroon's invitation into the State Partnership Program. [50]