The 10 Chinese workers abducted by Boko Haram gunmen in Cameroon have most likely been taken back across the border to the Nigerian Islamist group’s strongholds, a police official said Sunday. “We are almost certain that the 10 Chinese have been kidnapped…
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A Chinese national was killed and 10 others were feared kidnapped after an overnight attack in northern Cameroon believed to have been carried out by Boko Haram militants from Nigeria, a police said on Saturday. “Boko Haram Islamists attacked a camp…
CAF president Issa Hayatou and FIFA president Sepp Blatter commissioned the first of three CAF Football Centres of Excellence in…
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed at least 60 people in Nigeria’s troubled northeastern Borno state close to the border with Cameroon, a local official said. “The attackers, who are no doubt Boko Haram insurgents, attacked Amchaka and nearby villages…
Cameroon’s security forces Sunday were sweeping the remote northern region where two Italian priests and a Canadian nun were kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram gunmen, a local government official said. “We are everywhere. We have been on the ground since…
Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun have been kidnapped by gunmen in northern Cameroon, Italy’s foreign ministry and media reports said on Saturday. The attack occurred overnight in the north of the west African country, which borders violence-wracked…
Follow @{0}A pile of rifles after disarmament in eastern DRC. Weapons smuggling to Boko Haram is heightening insecurity in northern…
Nigeria has sealed a portion of its northeastern border with Cameroon to block the movement of insurgents and other criminal groups, the military said Sunday. The closure has been imposed in Adamawa state, one of three states in the northeast placed…
Nigeria has sealed a portion of its northeastern border with Cameroon to block the movement of insurgents and other criminal…
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says nearly 6,000 people have fled the northern parts of Nigeria due to the activities…
The United Nations said Monday it is running out of food for the growing number of homeless in Central African Republic because of spreading unrest in the country. The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said 38 trucks carrying rice are stuck at the Cameroon…
Seven people, including two Cameroonian soldiers, have been killed in an attack on eastern Cameroon by an armed group from the Central African Republic, a security official said on Thursday. The raid took place on the village of Ondiki, close to the…
A French Roman Catholic priest freed Tuesday after being held captive for seven weeks by Islamic militants in Cameroon said he was “in great shape” and thanked those who helped secure his release. Georges Vandenbeusch, 42, was kidnapped on November…
MAROUA, 27 December 2013 (IRIN) – The authorities in Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital, have set up tighter border controls in…
MINAWAO CAMP, 24 December 2013 (IRIN) – Only around 1,800 of the thousands of Nigerians forced to find refuge from…