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at least six teachers kidnapped in Kumbo

At least six teachers were abducted on the morning of Tuesday, November 3, from a Presbyterian school in Kumbo in the English-speaking northwestern region. According to confirmatory sources affiliated with the RFI, the unidentified attackers were heavily armed. According to testimony from the teachers' associations, it was…

Samuel Wazizi’s demise in Cameroon, a symbolic case

In reminiscence of our two colleagues from RFI, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, assassinated on November 2, 2013 in Mali, the UN has set November 2 because the Worldwide Day to Finish Impunity for Crimes Towards Journalists. A theme that's present in a rustic like Cameroon, the place this 12 months was marked by the announcement in June final 12 months of the demise of journalist Samuel Wazizi.…

President Biya criticized for his late reaction

The Cameroonian president finally expressed his condolences via Twitter to the victims of the massacre on Saturday, October 24, which took place at a school in Kumba, in the English-speaking southwest, in which seven students aged 9 to 12 were killed. as reported from Yaoundé,Polycarp EssombaHis silence was more than shrunk. It…

Cameroon blames separatists for the school massacre of children

In tonight's edition: The Cameroonian government blames the separatists for the killing of at least seven schoolchildren in its restive English region. The attack has been described as an "act of terrorism of unbearable cruelty and barbarism". And Tanzanians go to the polls Wednesday in an election that is to be a test of President John Magufuli's authoritarian style. And finally, with a few days left…

several children killed in the attack on a school

At least six students aged 9 to 12 were killed and several others injured in a massacre committed at a school in Kumba, in the English-speaking region of the southwestern area on Saturday, October 24, according to the report, which was communicated in the evening. by the Cameroonian Prime Minister. It was a school day like any…

Polio-free Cameroon stops pushing against viruses

Cameroon has not completely eased its fight against polio, but despitebeing declared free of the disease earlier this year. It has launched an immunization drive against a specific virus strain. Kenya, too, has pushed the regional trend and seen an elephant baby boom. But despite the promising number, the species remains vulnerable. And we see how students in Libya are caught between conflict and…

death of Woungly Massaga, figure of the armed struggle for independence

Woungly Massaga, revolutionary pan-Africanist, figure in the armed struggle for Cameroon's independence, died on Saturday 17 October in Yaoundé at the age of 84. Nicknamed "Commander Kissamba", Woungly Massagafut in the late 1960s, one of the leaders of this independence movement that was in conflict with the Cameroonian power Ahamadou Ahidjo and France. He died in Yaoundé on Saturday, October 17, at the age of 84. In the early 1970s, he revived the UPC, a party founded to gain Carmoun's independence after the…

Maurice Kamto’s lawyers condemn his “de facto house arrest”

When we postpone this case to two weeks, this obviously presupposes that, during these two weeks, President Kamto will still be assigned his home without any court order without any administrative order. This attack will therefore continue for at least two more weeks, and we cannot admit that a Cameroonian is kept at home with his family and home staff without food, without medicine, for that long. In the meantime, we, the lawyers, are thinking of other procedures that we can initiate so that this measure is effectively…

Candidates from the Ivory Coast opposition are calling for a boycott of the electoral course of

In tonight's version: Forward of Ivory Coast's tense presidential election on October 31, the opposition has requested supporters to boycott the election course of. there are fears that opposition to President Alassane Ouattara's bid for a controversial third time period may result in clashes. And in Guinea, voter expectation is excessive because the financial system continues to be in disaster. And…

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