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An assistant cook checks if the dog meat is ready and spicy enough as customers wait to be served. (Photograph by Amindeh Blaise Atabong)
AMBAZONIA

Anglophone Cameroon plays politics with no-work day

With Mondays enforced as off-days from work in conflict-ridden Cameroon, gathering at dog meat eateries to consume the delicacy and drink alcohol has become a weekly pastime.

  • Amindeh Blaise Atabong
6 min read
AFRICA

Cameroon concedes that soldiers committed Valentine’s Day massacre

Official inquiry found that the Cameroonian military was responsible for deadly attack on civilians

  • Amindeh Blaise Atabong
2 min read
Cameroon was one of the spoils of war for the victorious allied powers. (Alexis Huguet/AFP/Getty Images)
AMBAZONIA

Courageous women work to end Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis

The secessionist struggle has turned increasingly violent, with families fleeing and women violated

  • Webster Zambara
5 min read
The president, dubbed “the Sphinx”, keeps a low profile and has so far only attended one campaign rally ahead of Sunday’s polls. (Reuters)
AMBAZONIA

Biya’s backers deny Cameroon in chaos at rally in restive region

The southwest, along with the northwest, has been torn by two-years of clashes between English-speaking fighters and government forces

  • Gregory Walton
3 min read
There must be a consensual reform of the electoral system, certainly before the planning of any new elections, to avoid the post-election conflicts that have festered for the past 17 months.
AGENCY

Cameroonian forces flee violence in anglophone regions

Despite their military collaboration against Boko Haram Islamists, Nigeria and Cameroon have long had tense relations.

  • Agency
3 min read
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AMBAZONIA

Violent military crackdowns in Anglophone Cameroon are creating a refugee crisis

Cameroonian President Paul Biya celebrated 35 years in power, but people are fleeing violent crackdowns in English-speaking regions of Cameroon.

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read
Biya’s repeated long absences from Cameroon, mostly in Switzerland or in his home village in southern Cameroon, have been bitterly criticised. (Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty)
AMBAZONIA

Cameroon has lashed out at international thinktank over warning on anglophones

In a statement, a government spokesman hit out at reports published by ICG that criticised a crackdown in the two English-speaking regions.

  • Agence France Presse
2 min read
Hezbollah members carry mock rockets next to a poster of the group’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
AMBAZONIA

Protests in Anglophone Cameroon turn deadly

Soldiers have shot English-speaking protesters calling for independence from the majority French Cameroon.

  • Al Jazeera
3 min read