LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon’s President Paul Biya said he will drop charges against 333 prisoners arrested for their alleged roles in a two-year separatist uprising, but rebel leaders dismissed the move as a political stunt and pledged to keep fighting. The announcement on Twitter on Thursday comes during peace talks launched by Biya to end […]
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroonian political parties have crisscrossed the country ahead of the presidential elections on Sunday. Except for one candidate, no one has been able to organize campaigns in the restive Anglophone regions. Eight candidates representing a string of opposition parties are vying to oust 85-year-old incumbent President Paul Biya, who has ruled Cameroon […]
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The security crisis ravaging English-speaking regions of Cameroon is driving away many of the biggest traders originally from neighbouring Nigeria who have traditionally run key markets in towns around the regions, a report by Quartz Africa said. The crisis, which started as a modest industrial strike action by English-speaking lawyers and teachers […]
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon security forces have freed 18 hostages, including 12 European tourists, who had been seized by separatists fighting for the independence of English-speaking regions, the government said Wednesday. Seven Swiss and five Italian hostages were freed Monday in Manyu in the southwest after heavy exchanges of gunfire, said spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary. […]
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)- Cameroonian troops crossed into neighboring Nigeria in pursuit of separatist rebels, a Nigerian state defense spokesman and a former community leader said on Wednesday. Cameroon has been fighting Anglophone separatists who have taken up arms over the past year in an attempt to create a nation which they call Ambazonia. The […]
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unrest in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions intensified with arson attacks on schools and a city market as the government vowed to quash a secessionist movement whose leaders are in detention in Nigeria, saying it won’t negotiate with terrorists. At least three schools were torched this week in the Northwest region, one of two […]
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