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Dec
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Cameroon holds first-ever regional elections, separatists vow disruption

Cameroon holds first-ever regional elections, separatists vow disruption

NEWS
JOSIANE KOUAGHEU CAMEROON has held its first-ever regional election, which the government says hands more power to the provinces but opponents fear only maintains President Paul Biya's long hold on power. Biya hopes the vote will appease critics who say he has long neglected the Central African country's 10 regions, and end a four-year separatist insurgency in the English-speaking west which has become the greatest threat to his near 40-year rule. Separatist fighters have vowed to disrupt the vote in the Northwest and Southwest regions. Local representatives will vote to appoint councils in all 10 regions made up of regional…
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Nov
08
2020
By The African Mirror
Eleven kidnapped teachers freed in Cameroon

Eleven kidnapped teachers freed in Cameroon

NEWS
ELEVEN kidnapped teachers have been freed in western Cameroon, where separatist insurgents are battling government forces, the church that runs the schools has announced. Unidentified men took the teachers hostage on Tuesday during a raid on two schools in the town of Kumbo, just 10 days after gunmen stormed a school in another western town, killing at least seven children. No one has claimed responsibility for either of the raids. Samuel Fonki, representative of the church that runs the two schools, said the teachers had been freed but gave no further details when contacted via instant message. There was no…
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Nov
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Cameroon buries seven children killed in school shooting

Cameroon buries seven children killed in school shooting

NEWS
THE plaque on Nzakame Rhema’s coffin marks the “sunset” of her short life - October 24, 2020, the day gunmen burst into her school in Cameroon’s South West region and killed seven children. In the town of Kumba on Thursday, hundreds of people came to pay their respects as the children’s coffins, draped in the Cameroonian flag, were laid next to their portraits. Gospel choirs sang and speakers offered prayers. The children were buried later in separate funerals. “My heart bleeds a lot because her death was so tragic,” said Rhema’s weeping mother, Manyi Tita. “My daughter never committed any…
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Oct
25
2020
By The African Mirror
Five children killed in attack on Cameroonian school, say officials

Five children killed in attack on Cameroonian school, say officials

NEWS
GUNMEN have killed five children and badly wounded about nine others when they opened fire in a school in the city of Kumba in Cameroon's Southwest region, officials have disclosed. The officials blamed the attack on secessionist insurgents who are seeking to form a breakaway state in Cameroon's English-speaking west, though Reuters was unable to immediately confirm that. "They attacked around noon. They found the children in class and they opened fire on them," Kumba sub-prefect Ali Anougou told Reuters. He said that nine others had been seriously wounded and sent to hospital. Anglophone secessionists have imposed curfews and closed…
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Aug
13
2020
By The African Mirror
Killing of Cameroonian woman by alleged separatists sparks outcry

Killing of Cameroonian woman by alleged separatists sparks outcry

NEWS
HUMAN rights activists have condemned the killing of a young woman in Cameroon's Anglophone regions after a video of alleged separatist rebels slitting her throat drew outrage on social media. The conflict between separatists demanding independence from the mostly Francophone state and government forces has killed more than 3,000 people since 2017, with both sides regularly accused of committing atrocities. In the video, a young woman is seen with her hand behind her back being accosted by several young men, who then slit her throat with a machete and dump her body in the middle of the road. The Cameroon-based…
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Aug
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 15 in northern Cameroon

Suspected Boko Haram militants kill 15 in northern Cameroon

NEWS
SUSPECTED  militants from Islamist group Boko Haram have killed 15 people and wounded six others in a grenade attack on a camp for displaced people in northern Cameroon, a security source and a local official told Reuters. In the early hours, assailants threw a grenade into a group of sleeping people inside the camp in the village of Nguetchewe, said district mayor, Medjeweh Boukar. The camp is home to around 800 people, he said. The village is located in the Mozogo district, close to the Nigerian border in the Far North region. Boukar was informed by residents that 15 had…
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