Tag: Cameroon

Cameroon sets travel clamp in troubled anglophone region

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AFP) — Authorities in an English-speaking region in southwestern Cameroon on Thursday announced temporary curbs on travel and public meetings, adding to a curfew imposed in the northwest after protests by the country’s anglophone minority. The steps were announced ahead of what is expected to be a symbolic declaration of independence by Cameroon’s English speakers on Sunday. A fifth of the 22 million people in the francophone-majority West African state is English-speaking — a legacy of […]

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Cameroon rail accident toll rises to at least 60

  by Reinnier Kaze Yaoundé, Cameroon | AFP | — At least 60 were killed when a packed passenger train derailed between Cameroon’s two main cities, a hospital source in the capital Yaounde said Saturday, giving a new toll the day after the accident. Almost 600 people were injured when the train, travelling from Yaounde to the economic hub of Douala, came off the rails near the central city of Eseka at around midday Friday. […]

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Study sounds alarm for slow-breeding forest elephants

PARIS, France (AFP) — Even without poachers, Central Africa’s forest elephants would need almost a century to get their numbers back up to 2002 levels, said a study Wednesday that pried into the elusive creatures’ slow-breeding ways. The population had been decimated by illegal hunting, with an estimated 65 percent decline between 2002 and 2013, said researchers. Roaming the tropical forests of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon and Democratic Republic of Congo, the tusker sub-species […]

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Streets with no names: navigating the maze of African cities

by Reinnier Kaze Maps, road signs, sat navs, Google maps — it all makes travelling so easy. But how do you get around in a city with few street names, where buildings have no numbers? “Cross ‘Death Junction’ then after about 500 metres on the left, you’ll see a curtain seller. Go up the path until you see a black building — that’s where I live,” says Judith Koumis, giving directions to her home in […]

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Ten killed in jihadist suicide bombing in Cameroon

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AFP) — A suicide bombing by a Boko Haram jihadist has killed at least 10 people in northern Cameroon, a security source said Thursday. It was the latest in a spate of attacks blamed on the Nigeria-based Islamist militant group in northern Cameroon, which have driven tens of thousands of people from their homes. The security source said the attacker blew himself up in the town of Djakana near the Nigerian border overnight. “Seven […]

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Football: Cameroonian keeper dies aged 26 during warm-up

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AFP) — The goalkeeper of a Cameroonian women’s team has died after collapsing before a first division game, less than 48 hours after the death of Patrick Ekeng, the country’s football federation announced on Monday. Jeanine Christelle Djomnang, 26, fell ill during the warm-up prior to a Femina Stars Ebolowa match on Sunday, with the cause of her death still unknown as the federation awaits a medical report. Her death follows that of Cameroon […]

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Two suicide bombers kill at least 13 in Cameroon

  JULY  23 (Reuters) — At least 13 people were killed in two suicide bomb attacks in northern Cameroon on Wednesday (July 22) in what appeared to be the deepest incursion by Boko Haram militants from neighboring Nigeria. The first explosion hit a market and the second a densely populated neighborhood, both in the capital of Cameroon’s Far North region, Maroua, a military source told Reuters. No one claimed responsibility, but Boko Haram has stepped […]

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