Central Africa

Muslims in Cameroon have defied and are protesting government restrictions on prayer attendance at mosques, imposed to reduce the spread of COVID-19, which has so far been confirmed in 92 people in less than a month.The Muslims say the...

Officials in Cameroon are calling on citizens to stop attacks on foreigners and visitors from the diaspora who are being blamed for an increase in coronavirus cases.The attacks began after some passengers on an Air France flight that landed...

Cameroon's main opposition party says the government is plotting to assassinate its leader, Maurice Kamto, three days after the party says an armed man tried to shoot him during a visit to the city of Garoua.The government has dismissed...

Cameroon said on Friday it has confirmed its first two cases of the novel coronavirus, a French national who arrived in the capital Yaounde in February and a Cameroonian who came in contact with him.Cameroon is the first central...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Cameroonian forces of killing at least 21 civilians - including 13 children and one pregnant woman - in an attack in the country's troubled Anglophone region.HRW alleges that government forces along with Fulani...

A Cameroonian businessman Emmanuel Chedjou, 47 was carried onto a Turkish Airlines plane wrapped in bubble wrap to be deported from Turkey, for allegedly having a fake visa.Emmanuel Fosso Someon Chedjou, a shoe seller from Cameroon’s commercial capital Douala,...

The UN called on Cameroon Tuesday to conduct an independent investigation into the "shocking" killing of 23 villagers in a troubled English-speaking region and to ensure the perpetrators be held accountable.Citing information from UN colleagues on the ground, the UN rights...

Lawyers for Equatorial Guinea told United Nations judges Monday that French authorities illegally seized a mansion in Paris that the African nation insists operated as its embassy. The building was seized as part of a money laundering investigation into...

A massacre in an anglophone region of Cameroon left up to 22 villagers dead including 14 children, the UN said Sunday, with an opposition party blaming the killings on the army.Armed men carried out the bloodshed on Friday in...

The leader of Cameroon opposition MRC party that boycotted the parliamentary and local elections said that the Anglophone crisis was "a major reason" for the decision.Ongoing conflict between Cameroon's mainly French-speaking government and separatist fighters demanding independence for the...