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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, released them 27 Feb; 26 Feb kidnapped 279 girls in Zamfara state. Meanwhile, Auwalun Daudawa, who ...

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, maize, millet, and rice are the primary staples grown and consumed in the Far North region of Cameroon. ...

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 students stripped naked, terrified, jeered at by gunmen, and those images posted to social media. We have s...

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 struck in a school in Elak Oku in Cameroon’s North West region, taking four children away. The childre...