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On Sept. 15, Bashiru Abdallah was at the Douala IV council of the Littoral region in Cameroon to obtain copies of birth certificates for his kids. After escaping terror attacks last year, he had moved to Douala to start his life afresh. For 20 years, Abdallah worked as a fisherman in Kofia, a Cameroonian island …
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Nkwa Pascaline, 69, suffers from a bone disorder. She needs to travel over 100 kilometres from her village in Mbengwi, North West Cameroon, to Bafoussam, the headquarters of the country’s West region, to carry out a computerised tomography (CT) scan. But she has not been able to do so for the past two years. The …
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At least three people were killed and several others injured on Sept. 7 by separatist fighters in Muea, a village in the South West region of Cameroon, for disobeying their two-week ghost town order. The fighters had intercepted car owners around 7am and, after killing some, dumped their bodies on the highway. A few vehicles …
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Thirteen-year-old Mary was one of those students who survived a mass shooting at Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy in Kumba, South West of Cameroon. They were in their classroom on Oct. 24, 2020, when suspected separatist fighters stormed in, shooting indiscriminately. Six students died on the spot and 13 were seriously injured. The tragic incident …
Read MoreStudents at a private school in Cameroon. Photo:BHeT As a new academic session begins in Cameroon, many schoolchildren and teachers in English-speaking regions of the country are faced with uncertainty. The regions have faced threats from separatists who have kept children out of class for the past six years through violent attacks. On Saturday, Sept. …
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Sitting at his breakfast table in his home in Bamenda, Ngwain Colbert picked up his bread and directed it towards his mouth. Recent news about the community where he grew up caused the journalist to wonder if the people there had breakfast like he was about to. It started a chain of thought that resulted …
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The cost of living crisis sweating Nigeria has also hit neighbouring Cameroon. The Nigerian government’s removal of the subsidy it placed on imported petrol has, at a stroke, demolished the black market for smuggled fuel in Cameroon’s northern regions. Now Cameroonians are beginning to feel the pinch as prices begin to rise. The removal of …
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Forecasters are predicting more heavy rain in Cameroon, where scores of people have already been killed in floods, landslides and a building collapse in the past week. Experts told HumAngle people who are in vulnerable areas to get out and move to safer ground as soon as possible. More than 40 people were killed in …
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Borders have been closed, curfew imposed and state institutions shut down after a group of soldiers seized national television to announce Niger’s President Mohammed Bazoum had been ousted. The soldiers, led by Colonel Amadou Abdramane, read from a statement in the early hours of Thursday July 27, stating the defense and security forces made the …
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A teenage author is waiting in suspense while a court in Cameroon deliberates on whether a book she wrote is “blasphemous”, if found guilty she could be jailed. Oummou Hani Marzouka, author of the book “My Father or My Destiny”, could face six months in prison and a big fine. The Court of First Instance …
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Loba Ewalla, 11, and nine-year-old Nkongo Ewalla are on their school summer holidays, but their grandfather has kept them busy turning bottles into brooms. They learnt the art of this transformation living with their grandfather in Nkongsamba, Littoral region of Cameroon. Plastic bottles were spoiling Ewalla Ntouba’s farm, drifting into his fields on the wind, …
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Calm is yet to return to the Nacho neighbourhood in Bamenda, Cameroon after nine persons were shot dead by suspected separatist fighters. Some of the non-state armed groups were dressed in military attire during the attack that took place around 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 16. Witnesses say they heard gunshots from a drinking spot …
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