Central Africa

About 400 military police officers arrived in Bamenda from Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, recently, vowing to defend the country's territorial integrity.A similar number of armed police officers also arrived in the English-speaking southwestern town of Buea this week.One of their...

Former Central African Republic (CAR) rebel leader and president Michel Djotodia returned to Bangui on Friday, exactly six years after quitting as head of state, and pledged to support peace in the troubled country.Djotodia, 71, who resigned 10 months...

It was a "dirty war" waged by French colonial troops but it never made headlines and even today goes untold in school history books.The brutal conflict unfolded in Cameroon, which on January 1 marks its 60th anniversary of independence...

At least 30 people were killed in fighting between militiamen and traders in a restive district of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, a security source and an imam said Thursday.“Thirty bodies have been brought to the...

A bill granting special status to Cameroon's two crisis-hit anglophone regions was passed by lawmakers on Wednesday, national radio said, an attempt to ease two years of bloody violence.If the Senate approves the devolution law and it comes into...

Members of parliament in Cameroon are debating whether to grant more autonomy to the country's Anglophone regions where thousands of people have died in a separatist conflict.President Paul Biya has recently spoken of granting special status to the English...

A Canadian university has set up the Database of Atrocities for a part of Cameroon where those seeking independence are facing the wrath of the government. The initiative is intended to prompt the world to act, the report is...

Boko Haram militants have killed at least 275 people this year in Cameroon’s Far North region despite government claims back in January that the Islamic extremist group had waned in the area, Amnesty International said Wednesday.More than 80 percent...

The Cameroon government has shut down more than 260 schools that had been operating informally in the country’s francophone regions.The schools had been opened to help absorb students fleeing the separatist uprising in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions.I travelled to Douala...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's army says it has arrested a powerful Rwandan rebel commander, Nshimiyimana Asifiwe, in the eastern city of Goma reports BBC Africa. His arrest was proof that the military's campaign against the Democratic Forces for the...