Tag: Cameroon
70 civilians, six troops ‘killed in Boko Haram rampage in Cameroon’
Boko Haram fighters killed nearly 70 civilians and six soldiers in an onslaught on the Cameroonian border town of Fotokol…
Boko Haram slits civilians’ throats in fresh attack
Boko Haram fighters slit civilians’ throats and torched the main mosque in the Cameroon border town of Fotokol during an…
Cameroon troops clash with fleeing Boko Haram fighters
Cameroon soldiers clashed with Boko Haram fighters in the border town of Fotokol on Wednesday as the Islamists fled an…
3 Chad soldiers, 123 Boko Haram fighters killed in Cameroon
Three soldiers and 123 Boko Haram militants were killed when the Islamist group attacked a Chadian army contingent in northern…
AFCON 2015: Ivory Coast, Cameroon In Do-Or-Die Match
Ivory Coast will hope to finally register their first victory in the 2015 CAF African Cup of Nations in Equatorial…
Hundreds flee Borno villages ‘after Boko Haram warning’
Hundreds of people from four villages near the devastated Nigerian town of Baga have been forced to flee after a…
Boko Haram kidnaps 60 in deadly Cameroon attack
*Most of the captives are women, children Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria on Sunday kidnapped at least 60 people in…
Eto’o ‘hugely missed’ by Cameroon, says Mbia
Cameroon skipper Stephane Mbia says the absence of Samuel Eto’o from this year’s Africa Cup of Nations is a blow…
Chad joins war against Boko Haram, deploys troops to Cameroon
Dozens of Chadian tanks headed out of the capital Friday south towards Cameroon to help fight Nigeria’s dreaded Boko Haram…
I feel pained when I hear Nigerians flee to Cameroon, Chad – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has said it pains him to hear that Nigerians flee to Cameroon, Chad as Internally Displaced Persons…
Boko Haram: Chad to send troops to support Cameroon
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya announced Thursday that neighbouring Chad will send troops to aid his country’s army fight Boko Haram…
Chad pledges support to Cameroon against Boko Haram
Chad’s government on Wednesday pledged “active support” for neighbouring Cameroon in fighting Boko Haram, after another cross-border raid this week…
143 Boko Haram fighters gunned down in Cameroon
The Cameroonian army killed 143 Boko Haram militants who attacked a town in Kolofata, north of the country on Monday,…
Song Retires From Cameroon
Cameroon midfielder Alex Song has announced retirement from international football following exclusion from his country’s Africa Cup of Nations squad.…
Boko Haram shoots 15 bus passengers dead in Cameroon
At least 15 people have been killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants on a bus in northern…
Boko Haram frees Chinese captives, wife of Cameroon’s top politician
Ten Chinese and 17 local hostages have been released in Cameroon, where they were kidnapped earlier this year in raids…
Boko Haram fires rocket at Cameroon, 8 killed
At least eight persons were killed in Cameroon on Monday in a rocket attack blamed on the Islamist group Boko…
Samuel Eto’o Finally Retires
Cameroon’s four-time African player of the year Samuel Eto’o confirmed yesterday that he was calling time on his international career…
Boko Haram writes fleeing Borno residents, promises more attack
Fleeing Borno residents have been written by Islamist sect Boko Haram, promising more terror attacks. Survivors of menacing attacks in…
Boko Haram recruits young Cameroonians
Cameroonian authorities now believe that Boko Haram movement has recruited and trained hundreds of young Cameroonians to carry out attacks…
Cameroon steps up fight against Boko Haram
Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, has sent his army chief to the north of the country to beef up the battle…
200 die of cholera in Cameroon
An outbreak of cholera has killed more than 200 people in northern Cameroon over the past two months, the Health…
Cameroon sacks 2 army chiefs after Boko Haram raids
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya on Tuesday dismissed two senior army officers in the country’s far north following Boko Haram attacks…
Jonathan condemns terror attacks in Kano, Adamawa, Cameroon
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday said he “wholeheartedly condemned’’ the recent terrorist attacks in Kano and Adamawa states. The president…
Two female suicide bombers kill nine in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano No fewer than nine people died on Tuesday in two explosions in Kano northwest Nigeria, while several others…
Cameroon jails 14 Boko Haram members
A military court in Cameroon has handed down prison sentences of up to 20 years to 14 Boko Haram members,…
Boko Haram: Cameroon deploys troops to Nigeria border
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali, on Tuesday said that Cameroon had deployed about 1,000 soldiers to Nigerian…
Nigeria has no territorial ambition – Dasuki
The National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd), said on Wednesday 9 July that Nigeria respects the sovereignty of…
Boko Haram Islamists kill 7
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists disguised in army uniforms killed seven people in an attack near the northeastern border with Cameroon,…
Plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon ‘missing’
A four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroon has disappeared, according to Cameroon aviation sources on Tuesday. The…