Tensions ran high in troubled Cameroon on Sunday as the national election commission, ELECAM, prepared to announce on Monday the final result of the October 7 presidential election. ELECAM has 15 days from the poll closing to report final results according to Cameroon law, and the last of 18 legal challenges…
Cameroon’s national election commission, ELECAM, submitted its final report Monday on the October 7 presidential election vote to the country’s constitutional council, but there are still no official results released. ELECAM has 15 days from the poll closing to report final results according to Cameroon law. That’s leaving a window to…
There are still no official results in Cameroon’s presidential election, with the latest word from ELECAM — the West African nation’s electoral commission — reiterating that under the country’s constitution they have 15 days from the closing of Sunday’s polls to report the results. That’s kept tensions high in a nation that, for…
Amnesty International says its experts have verified two videos from Cameroon’s Anglophone regions that, two years after peaceful protests were met by military force under President Paul Biya, now demonstrate escalating violence in the West African nation. The first video shows the decapitation and mutilation of a gendarme, presented by…
President Paul Biya of Cameroon met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday as African heads of state continue to arrive in Beijing ahead of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit. Biya said he stressed Cameroon’s support for China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a global economic strategy at the…
In Cameroon, more than 160 prisoners escaped early Sunday after a group of armed men attacked the Ndop prison, released its inmates and set fire to the facility in the country’s troubled northwest Anglophone region. The national media agency in Cameroon said that a group they identified as armed secessionists…
The French government on Thursday said it remains concerned about the political crisis in Cameroon, but did not announce any specific initiatives to engage in mediating the conflict between President Paul Biya’s government, and the opposition activists and separatists from its Anglophone regions. “We are closely monitoring the situation in…
In Cameroon, Anglophone activist Mancho Bibixy and six others were found guilty on charges of terrorism, secession and related crimes after appearing this week before a military court. They remain in custody in Yaoundé pending their sentencing on May 8. Bibixy was arrested after making a public speech from a…
In Cameroon, where Anglophone activists tried before a military court received heavy sentences this week, the case against Mancho Bibixy has been adjourned yet again until April 24. Bibixy was arrested after making a public speech from a coffin in November 2016, as the tensions heightened between the country’s English-speaking…
The UN Refugee Agency on Thursday expressed “great concern” over the forced return to Cameroon of 47 people who sought refuge in Nigeria, most of whom had submitted asylum claims. “Their forcible return is in violation of the principle of non-refoulement, which constitutes the cornerstone of international refugee law,” the…
Cameroonian-American writer and scholar Patrice Nganang is home safely in the United States, after a sudden reversal by authorities in Cameroon saw his release from prison and quick deportation. “Finally home, tired,” said Nganang in a Facebook post late Thursday, as his travels from Cameroon to Washington D.C. and New…
Cameroonian-American writer and scholar Patrice Nganang has remained in prison in Yaoundé over the holidays, ahead of a January 19 court date. Nganang was first detained at the Douala airport, where he checked his bags and planned to board a flight to Zimbabwe on December 6. His wife reported that…
Prosecutors in Cameroon now say writer and university professor Patrice Nganang faces charges of contempt of state for publicly insulting President Paul Biya, while also accusing the 47-year-old scholar of death threats, illegal immigration and forgery. Nganang and his attorney, Emmanuel Simh, disputed the charges during a Saturday hearing, according…
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The detention of writer Patrice Nganang in Cameroon has been met with outcry from the international community, including the press advocacy organization PEN International’s chapter in the United States. Nganang was born in Cameroon and is now Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory at Stony Brook University in New York….
A group of United Nations human rights experts has called on Cameroon’s government to end renewed violence in the country’s Anglophone regions and guard against ongoing human rights violations. The experts on a range of human rights issues – peaceful assembly, freedom of expression, arbitrary detentions and executions – said…