One of Africa’s longest serving leaders, Biya has made Yaounde’s Etoudi presidential palace his home since 1982
Tens of thousands of English-speaking Cameroonians have fled the country ahead of the presidential vote
The southwest, along with the northwest, has been torn by two-years of clashes between English-speaking fighters and government forces
The anniversary on Monday will kick off a crucial week for the country which heads to the polls next Sunday
External intervention is needed as the conflict in the Anglophone region worsens
Elections in Cameroon, scheduled for October 7, will be held against a backdrop of uncertainty in the English-speaking regions
Government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary late Wednesday condemned the mobile phone video as a "horrible forgery" and "fake news"
No reason was given for the delay
The United Nations says 160 000 people in Cameroon have been internally displaced and 20 000 have sought refuge in neighbouring Nigeria.
Some human rights activists worry that Cameroon could be the site of Africa’s next civil war
The unrest in English-speaking areas continues as separatists attack government officials and soldiers burn villages
Despite their military collaboration against Boko Haram Islamists, Nigeria and Cameroon have long had tense relations.
Cameroonian President Paul Biya celebrated 35 years in power, but people are fleeing violent crackdowns in English-speaking regions of Cameroon.
Soldiers have shot English-speaking protesters calling for independence from the majority French Cameroon.
The Cameroonian government is silencing dissent by using the ambiguous provisions of an anti-terrorism law to arrest and harass journalists
A new anti-terror law is being used to silence any critical media that brings attention to the poor governance of President Biya’s and his government
Cameroon’s president ordered a military court to halt its trial of Anglophone leaders to ease tensions with the country’s minority anglophone areas
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> spoke to Achille Mbembe, a Cameroonian political theorist and historian about what drives African autocrats like Paul Biya
Cameroon’s supreme court has rejected an opposition bid to annul this month’s presidential election, paving the way for results to be published.
More than 100 people died in clashes between demonstrators and police in Cameroon last week, a local human rights group said on Wednesday in the absence of an official toll. "We can already say there are more than 100 dead. News comes in to us every day and we are still checking it out," Madeleine Afite of the Maison des Droits de L’Homme said.
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/ 29 February 2008
Cameroon’s main journalists’ union accused the government on Friday of trying to silence media coverage of anti-government riots after police shut down a popular radio station that aired criticism of the president. Magic FM 94, a private radio station in the capital Yaounde, was closed down by armed gendarmes on Thursday.
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/ 27 February 2008
Anti-government riots spread to Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, on Wednesday and police in the port of Douala also fired tear gas at protesters angry over high fuel and food prices. After four days of unrest that killed at least six people in western towns, including Douala, rioters blocked streets in Yaoundé with barricades of burning tyres and timber.
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/ 25 February 2008
At least four people were killed in Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, on Monday when protesters angry over the high cost of living barricaded streets in the port city, looted shops and clashed with riot police. The violence in the teeming city erupted after taxi drivers launched a strike to protest against petrol- and fuel-price hikes.
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/ 18 February 2008
A group of students, artists and workers in Cameroon has formed a movement to oppose President Paul Biya’s plan to reform the Constitution so that he can run for office again, a founder said on Monday. This movement considers that ”no modification of the Constitution can be envisaged before the vote for change scheduled for 2011”.