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Young hero added to Cameroon Garden Unmute LA CROSSE, Wis. - (WXOW) - The International Friendship Gardens at Riverside Park have added a hero to their scenery. The Cameroon Garden now features Sense Pass King. From the rich tradition of Cameroon storytelling, she is the young girl who slew a sea monster with her bow and arrows. Now she takes aim, bowstring drawn, forever at the ready guarding the garden. Her story brings honor to her city of Kumbo and her image br...

Cameroon Price Bulletin, April 2021 Format The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year. Sorghum, maize, ...

A woman walks past a soldier of the Cameroon armys elite Rapid Intervention Battalion in the city of Buea in the Anglophone Southwest Region Oct. 4, 2018. (Newscom/Reuters/Zohra Bensemra) Yaounde, Cameroon — Several Catholic bishops in Cameroons English-speaking regions are sharply criticizing President Paul Biyas violent, yearslong campaign to quell an independence movement in those regions. In recent NCR interviews, three prelates suggested that Biyas government had initia...

Cameroon Price Bulletin, March 2021 Format The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year. Sorghum, maize, ...

Cameroon Military Accused of Killing Civilians in New Attacks on Separatists Home/English/Cameroon Military Accused of Killing Civilians in New Attacks on Separatists General Valere Nka, commander of the Cameroonian troops fighting separatists in the English-speaking North-West region, Dec. 12, 2020. (Moki Edwin Kindzeka/VOA) Cameroon Military Accused of Killing Civilians in New Attacks on Separatists March 7, 2021 April 3, 2021 YAOUNDÉ VOA | Cameroonians are complaining of increasing human ...

February 2021 Criminal groups abducted hundreds in north west, while ethnic and regional tensions ran high in south amid farmer-herder conflict; meanwhile, tensions rose in south east between govt and Biafra secessionists. Criminal groups in Feb reportedly killed at least 112 and kidnapped over 450 people, mostly in Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto and Zamfara states (north west), but also in Niger state (Middle Belt). Notably, armed group 17 Feb abducted 42 students and school personnel in Niger state,...

Cameroon Price Bulletin, February 2021 Format The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year. Sorghum, maiz...

Your browser does not support the audio element. YAOUNDÉ I long for a Cameroon where anglophone children no longer mimic the sound of gunfire, and Mondays are no longer “stay-at-home” days decreed by armed men.  I want to go back to a time – not so long ago – when education was a religion in every household, and schools were places children were eager to attend, promising a brighter future. These days, we have school massacres, boycotts, kidnappings.  We have teachers and student...

A military captain has reportedly been killed by armed Ambazonia separatist fighters in Kumbo, Bui ivision in the North West Region,

Cameroon cardinal says schools boycott turning people against Anglophone separatists Cardinal Christian Tumi. (Credit: Crux.) Cameroon’s Cardinal Christian Tumi says a violently enforced schools boycott is tuning the population against separatists in the country’s Anglophone regions. YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Cameroon’s Cardinal Christian Tumi says a violently enforced schools boycott is tuning the population against separatists in the country’s Anglophone regions. On Feb. 6,  gunmen stru...