Cameroon

A judge in Cameroon has ordered the release of a US-based author and academic who was detained for allegedly threatening President Paul Biya's life.

Officials in Cameroon have said that individuals in the country’s Anglophone regions on Monday killed four state security officials in the town of Kembong in Southwest region’s Manyu Division.

A suicide bomb attack in a mosque in northern Cameroon on Monday killed two people.

Cameroonians from the western part of the country are reported to be fleeing the area to escape the military crackdown on persons and campaigns seeking independence.

The President of Cameroon Paul Biya has told citizens of his country that he would ensure that attacks by separatists in the English-speaking regions of the country are brought to an end.

The African Development Bank Group’s Board of Directors has approved a loan of €180 million to the Republic of Cameroon to finance the first phase of the government’s Competitiveness and Economic Growth Support Programme (PACCE). PACCE is the first of a three-year programmatic general budget support operations to be implemented from 2017 to 2019 in order to shore up public finances in the wake of dwindling oil prices exasperated by security and related humanitarian challenges within the country and across the CEMAC region.

The main parliament building in Cameroon's capital Yaoundé has been badly damaged by fire which ripped through four floors.

Separatists from Cameroon’s Anglophone region have killed four security forces in several attacks over the past few days, the government said on Saturday, an unprecedented violent turn to a movement that risks morphing into a full blown insurgency.

Arrest warrants have been issued by officials in Cameroon against leaders of the Anglophone region’s separatist party.

The President of Cameroon, Paul Biya is marking 35 years in power making him one of the longest serving leaders of an African country.