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Cameroon: Boko Haram attack kills nine in Far North region

At least nine people have been killed in Tchakamari, a locality in the Kolofata sub division of the Far North…
Published on 20.04.2019 by Journalducameroun Human interest
Cameroon: Nine killed in B/Haram raid

A raid by the militant sect Boko Haram on Charkamari village in northern Cameroon has left at least nine people…
Published on 19.04.2019 by APA News APA
Cameroon: Boko Haram mine kills four soldiers in Far North region

At least four Cameroonian soldiers were killed on Friday April 12 in Kerawa, Far North region of Cameroon after their…
Published on 13.04.2019 by Journalducameroun security
US to cut security aid to Cammeroon over alleged rights violation

The United States of America will cut security aid to Cameroon due to allegations of human rights violations in the…
Published on 07.02.2019 by Journalducameroun security
Cameroon: Boko Haram attack leaves three soldiers injured

At least three soldiers were injured last night in the Far North during an attack launched by Boko Haram fighters,…
Published on 06.02.2019 by Journalducameroun security
35.000 Nigerian refugees have arrived Cameroon-UN

At least 35.000 Nigerian refugees fleeing the conflict in the Northern region of the country have arrived Cameroon, the United…
Published on 02.02.2019 by Journalducameroun Human interest
Cameroon:About 200 house raazed in fresh Boko Haram attacks in F/N region

About 200 houses were at the weekend razed by suspected Boko Haram terrorist fighters in the Far North region in…
Published on 28.01.2019 by Journalducameroun security
Cameroon: About 100 houses razed in Boko Haram attack in F/N region

About 100 houses were razed over the weekend in the locality of Aschigachia, in Far North region of Cameroon, local sources…
Published on 21.01.2019 by Journalducameroun security
Suicide bomber injures at least 20 persons in F/N Cameroon

At least 29 persons have been injured following a suicide bomb attack in Amchidé, Far North region of Cameroon, sources…
Published on 28.11.2018 by Journal du Cameroun security
Boko Haram attack leaves two dead in Far North

At least two persons have died in the Far North Region and many others injured following an attack by insurgents…
Published on 17.07.2018 by Journal du Cameroun security
Amnesty int’l accuses Cameroon army of extra judicial killing

Rights group Amnesty International has accused the Cameroon military of shocking extrajudicial executions which were allegedly caught on video. In…
Published on 12.07.2018 by Francis Ajumane Human interest
Cameroon gov’t dismiss women, children execution video as fake

Cameroon's Minister of Communication Issa Tchiroma Bakary has described a viral video on the internet showing soldiers executing women and…
Published on 12.07.2018 by Francis Ajumane Human interest
UNHCR alarmed by forceful return of Nigerian refugees from Cameroon

The United Nations High Commission for refugees has called on Cameroonian authorities to exercise restraint following news that over 300…
Published on 21.04.2018 by Francis Ajumane Human interest
Combined military operation kills 35 Boko Haram terrorists

At least 35 Boko Haram terrorists have been killed following a joint Cameroon-Nigeria military operation the Northern fringes of Lake…
Published on 28.02.2018 by Francis Ajumane Uncategorized
Cameroon: More than 60 Boko Haram attacks in 2017-UN Official

Ursula Mueller, UN Assistant-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, has said more than 60 suicide attacks were carried out by the Boko Haram insurgency in…
Published on 27.02.2018 by Journal du Cameroun Life
Boko Haram hits Far North Cameroon again, kill six

Boko Haram sect over the weekend hit Cameroon's Far North Region again. At least six people were killed in a double attack…
Published on 26.02.2018 by Journal du Cameroun security
Civilians advised against putting on military outfits

Cameroon's army spokesman, Colonel Didier Badjeck, has advised civilians against putting on military outfits. According to Colonel Badjeck, the act…
Published on 10.08.2017 by Journal du Cameroun security
Amnesty International, Human Rights & Cameroon’s Military

Issa Tchiroma’s vituperative outbursts and banal aspersions cast on Amnesty International was bad politics, even more so, as the language…
Published on 10.08.2017 by Journal du Cameroun Opinion column
70 lecturers quit institution over nonstop B/H attacks

The Academic Staff Union of Universities chapter of the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) have said 70 lecturers have resigned their…
Published on 07.08.2017 by Journal du Cameroun security
Pentagon investigating if U.S. troops knew of torture at Cameroonian base

The U.S. military is investigating a report that its service members were present at a Cameroonian base where U.S.-trained security…
Published on 28.07.2017 by Journal du Cameroun Institutional
In the war on Boko Haram, is the U.S. turning a blind eye to Cameroon’s abuses?

Matthew T. Page, a former Africa analyst for the State Department, is a consultant and fellow with the Centre for Democracy and…
Published on 28.07.2017 by Journal du Cameroun Institutional
Defence, social affairs ministry partner to fight Boko Haram through childhood education

Joseph Beti Assomo, Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Defence, and Pauline Irène Nguene, Minister of Social Affairs,…
Published on 28.07.2017 by Journal du Cameroun Education
Gov’t assistance for our group disappears in offices- Vigilante committee head

Haman Boubakari, head of a ‘vigilance committee’ in the Meskin village in Maroua I sub-division says his group has never…
Published on 28.07.2017 by Journal du Cameroun Life
Cameroon mourns perished soldiers

Paul Biya, Cameroon’s President has declared today and tomorrow as national days of mourning in memory of soldiers who perished…
Published on 28.07.2017 by Journal du Cameroun Human interest
Two gendarmes killed in B/H Far North attack today

Two Cameroonian gendarmes have been killed in a Boko Haram attack in the Far North Region, sources say. This is…
Published on 26.07.2017 by Journal du Cameroun security
Amnesty International war crime claims’ are baseless-Tchiroma

Issa Tchiroma Bakary, Cameroon's Minister of Communication, has said Amnesty International's claims that the country's security forces are committing war…
Published on 25.07.2017 by Journal du Cameroun Institutional
Cameroon slammed for allegedly killing B/H suspects

Cameroon's security forces were on Thursday accused of torturing hundreds of Boko Haram suspects, leading to dozens of deaths, in…
Published on 25.07.2017 by Journal du Cameroun security
Dozens still missing after army vessel capsize at sea

Many Cameroonian troops are still missing after an army vessel transporting the troops from the elite Rapid Intervention Brigade capsized on Sunday off…
Published on 20.07.2017 by Journal du Cameroun security
Amnesty report indicts Cameroon’s security forces for torture

An Amnesty International report have accused Cameroon’s security forces of torturing hundreds of people in secret chambers. Dozens of testimonies,…
Published on 20.07.2017 by Journal du Cameroun Institutional
Tchiroma bounces back after catastrophic Boko Haram attack

The government spokesman who media reports suggested had been hushed by the presidency issued a press release on July 13…
Published on 14.07.2017 by Journal du Cameroun Life