Eight Cameroonian athletes have gone missing from their accommodation at the Commonwealth Games in Australia, team officials have confirmed to the BBC. Press attache Simon Molombe said officials viewed the vanishing act as “desertion” and that the missing athletes had Read more
Nigerian Army authorities have confirmed that two of its officers injured in an ambush by Boko Haram insurgents during a patrol in Borno State, are receiving medical treatment. The wounded soldiers, who were part of troops that successfully fought through Read more
At least seven people were killed in Cameroon’s restive anglophone belt at the weekend as a separatist group made a symbolic declaration of independence. The separatists chose October 1, the anniversary of the official reunification of the anglophone and francophone Read more
Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 who they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, officials said on Saturday. The girls were released through negotiations with the government, Read more
Three people were killed and four others wounded on Wednesday in a suicide attack in Cameroon’s restive Far North, a local official said. “Just before 10:00 am, a suicide bomber who crossed from Nigeria entered Kolofata and blew himself up,” Read more
Ahmad Ahmad is the new president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Ahmad, who is from Madagascar beat Cameroonian Issa Hayatou by 34 to 20 votes in the election which held on Thursday at the headquarters of the African Read more