Separatist rebels in Cameroon are attacking humanitarian aid convoys and destroying what they describe as “poisoned” supplies, causing aid workers to become increasingly nervous about entering the conflict zones.
The U.S.-backed Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) fighting jihadis in the Lake Chad Basin counties over the weekend repudiated a video by the Islamic State-West African Province (ISWAP) released late last month and purportedly showing the execution of nine Nigerian troops as well as the seizure of personnel and their heavy weapons.
Over 100 Boko Haram jihadis reduced an entire village to ashes in Cameroon near the country’s border with Nigeria, fatally setting at least 11 residents on fire while they slept, including children and elderly persons, and taking 100 people hostage after the attack late last week.
China confirmed this week that its government has written off almost $80 million in debt from Cameroon following pressure from Chinese journalists who uncovered the deal.
President Paul Biya of Cameroon took office on Tuesday for the seventh time after a victory marred by controversy and violence in October, particularly in the English-speaking minority regions demanding independence (Cameroon is majority French-speaking).
An African bishop in Rome for the synod of bishops has decried the lethargy of European Christianity, saying that it opens the door to an “Islamic invasion.”
African news outlets reported on Friday that dissidents in Cameroon are petitioning the country’s elections management body to annul the October 7 presidential election, citing “massive fraud” in favor of President Paul Biya.
Contents: Cameroon’s Paul Biya continues ethnic cleansing of Anglophones in Southern Cameroons; Cameroon Anglophone separatists act to block 86 yo Paul Biya’s reelection
A “horrific escalation of violence” fueled by clashes between security forces and separatist groups in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions has led to the death of 400 “ordinary people” already this year, the human rights group Amnesty International reported this week.
The U.S. State Department on Monday condemned the release of a video appearing to show soldiers in Cameroon killing a woman and infant, among others. As President Paul Biya, 85, prepares to run for a seventh term as president, foreign governments and human rights organizations are increasingly sounding the alarm on growing violence between French and English speakers in the country.
Contents: Viral video shows Francophone Cameroon soldiers killing women and children; Cameroon continues on path to full-scale civil war
Contents: Cameroon condemns scathing Amnesty report on government atrocities; Amnesty report documents increasing violence on both sides
Twenty-two people were killed on Friday in the Anglophone (English-speaking) region of Cameroon by army and security forces from the Francophone (French-speaking) government of 85-year-old president Paul Biya, who has been in power for more than 35 years.
Contents: Nigeria threatens Cameroon as 40,000 refugees cross the border; Nigeria sends army to curb violence between herders and farmers
Contents: Cameroon crisis escalates as English-speakers flee to Nigeria to escape French-speakers’ violence; Cameroon Catholic Church splits over government ‘barbarism’ and ‘growing genocide’
Promises by China that its port project in Cameroon would bring an economic revival to the region have fallen short.
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Migrants from countries like Eritrea, Cameroon, and Mexico have flooded the U.S. southern border in San Diego to such an extent in recent days that U.S. border officials have been unable to process them without long lines forming on the Tijuana side of the border.
A judge in Cameroon has ordered the release and expulsion of a dual American-Cameroonian citizen for criticizing the country’s dictator Paul Biya.
Contents: Cameroon’s English-speaking provinces on the verge of full-scale violence; Cameroon and Paul Biya behave typically following a generational crisis civil war
Contents: European-African summit calls for end to slavery auctions in Libya; AU-EU Summit creates task force to solve the slave trade problem; China drives thousands of Beijing migrants out into the winter cold
Contents: Cambodia dissolves the opposition political party so that Hun Sen can be reelected unopposed; Comparing Awakening Eras in Cambodia, Syria, Zimbabwe and other countries
Contents: Deadly violence increases in English-speaking regions of Cameroon; Cameroon’s 84-year-old president Paul Biya exhibits same violence as other African leaders
A young girl wearing an explosive vest blew herself up Tuesday evening in the midst of other schoolchildren in Cameroon, killing four besides herself, in an attack thought to be instigated by the Boko Haram Islamic terror group.
Contents: Kirkuk becomes the flash point after the Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum; Significant differences in the three recent independence movements
Contents: Cameroon police shoot and kill English-speaking protesters on Sunday; Catalonia’s leader says the region has ‘won the right to statehood’ from Spain
The Nigerian branch of the Islamic State, Boko Haram, claws its way off the mat every time international media pronounce it down for the count.
Contents: Anti-government tensions grow in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions; Violence grows as Cameroon cracks down on Anglophone activists; Cameroon will use police and soldiers to force children to go to school.
Contents: Eritrean government laughably uses Orthodox Christian Patriarch as show prop; Eritrea’s Christian crackdown centers on Medhane Alem Orthodox Church; The violence of generational Awakening eras
The Catholic Bishops of Cameroon have called for a complete investigation into the mysterious death of Bishop Jean Marie Benoît Balla, behind which they see “obscure diabolical forces.”
The body of the Roman Catholic bishop of Bafia, Jean-Marie Benoît Bala, has been retrieved from the Sanaga River in southwest Cameroon 48 hours after police discovered his car and an apparent suicide note on the Ebebda bridge above the river on Wednesday afternoon.
Contents: Cameroon’s president finally caves in, restores internet to English speakers; With violence in Venezuela’s streets continuing, Maduro confiscates GM factories
A man purporting to be Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigeria-based jihadist group Boko Haram, has allegedly appeared in a new video obtained by Nigerian news outlet Premium Times.
Contents: Cameroon shuts down internet for English-speakers protesting French-speakers; Brief generational history of Cameroon; English-speaking activists face death penalty for separatist protests
Cameroonians, a year removed from receiving presidential permission to use witchcraft against Boko Haram, report mixed results on the use of chants and talismans to keep terrorist members of the Islamic State affiliate from attacking their communities.
Contents: New armed militia emerges in Central African Republic: Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation (3R); Central African Republic crisis war continues to spin out of control
Contents: Cameroon: One person killed in English-speaking vs French-speaking civil unrest; Activists call for independence of English-speaking Cameroon
Contents: Violence resurges in Central African Republic’s crisis civil war; In Darfur Sudan, genocidal violence continues after 13 years of civil war; European Union will pay Sudan’s militias to block migration to Europe
This Islamic State released a video Wednesday touting the successes of its African affiliate, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the terror group more popularly known as Boko Haram. The jihadists in the video vow to enslave the entire continent, beginning with the conquest of Niger.
A bodyguard to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been arrested for allegedly having ties to a senior member of the Islamic State-affiliated terrorist group Boko Haram.
