AL WAKRAH, Qatar—Breel Embolo’s goal lifted Switzerland to a 1–0 win over Cameroon at the World Cup on Thursday and he kept his promise not to celebrate scoring against the country where he was born. The Swiss forward from Yaounde struck with a right-foot shot in the 48th minute, standing all alone eight meters (yards)…

Simmering tensions surrounding the ownership of a fertile piece of land between two struggling communities in the remote area of Akwaya in southwestern Cameroon, degenerated into another bloodbath on June 25. Ferdinand Adawa Ugbe never lived to see the cocoa plantation he planned to set up on the disputed Ufambe fertile farmland, in his native…

The protracted civil war between Cameroon’s army and Anglophone militants fighting for a breakaway state produced a new wave of violence in recent months. Forty-nine patients narrowly escaped death on June 8 when unidentified gunmen attacked and burnt the Mamfe District Hospital in the crisis-hit Southwest Region that serves more than 85,000 people. Both the…

YAOUNDE, Cameroon—Cameroon rescue workers are searching for survivors after a small passenger plane carrying 11 people crashed in a forest in the central part of the West African country, the ministry of transport said Thursday. The aircraft was chartered by the Cameroon Oil Transportation Company which maintains a hydrocarbon pipeline that runs between Cameroon and…

President Joe Biden’s administration on April 15 announced protection for Cameroon nationals who are in the United States. The move, which will shield the Cameroonians for 18 months from deportation, was made because of fighting in their home country, according to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. “Cameroonian nationals currently residing in the U.S. who…

Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill urging Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to hold the government of Cameroon accountable for human rights abuses linked to Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis. The Feb. 2 bill came after a damning report by Human Rights Watch detailing the killing of children and women by Cameroonian soldiers during three…

YAOUNDE, Cameroon—Cameroon authorities have blamed a deadly stadium crush at the African Cup of Nations tournament on a “massive” influx of ticketless fans who arrived late to a game involving the host team and tried to force their way in to avoid security checks and COVID-19 screening. In response, the government ordered 250 extra police…

YAOUNDE, Cameroon—Eight people have now died after a stampede outside a game at the African Cup of Nations soccer tournament in Cameroon, as witnesses blamed security officials for errors while news footage showed fans climbing over fences earlier to bypass checks and get into the stadium. Another seven people are in serious condition in the…

In what reads like a reenactment of the October 2020 massacre of school children in Cameroon, children have yet again paid a heavy price in the drawn-out war rocking the Central-African state. On November 24, 2021, unidentified gunmen stormed a state-run secondary school in Ekondo Titi, Ndian Division of South West Cameroon, killing four students…

The scrubby Savannah and semi-tropical border areas between Cameroon and Central African Republic have become such a crime hub that defense ministers of the two countries have made an alliance. The large border areas linking Cameroon, the Central African Republic (CAR), and Chad are increasingly becoming one of the world’s unknown crime hubs, according to…