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Hostages have been taken and three bodies found in the Wulgo forest, close to the border with CameroonBoko Haram jihadists have seized about 40 loggers and killed three others in north-east Nigeria near the border with Cameroon, militia sources and residents have said. The hostages were rounded up by the insurgents on Thursday in Wulgo forest near the town of Gamboru, where they went...

Move by the Trump administration comes despite reports that other deportees have gone missing since being repatriatedThe US is expected to fly Cameroonian asylum seekers back to their home country on Tuesday despite fears that their lives will be at risk and reports that deportees repatriated last month are now missing.Some of the deportees are activists from the country’s anglophone minority, who face arrest...

The country should be rich, but millions live in dire poverty. France must stop supporting the president and his electoral ploysOn 6 December, Africa’s oldest serving leader, Paul Biya, and his ruling party, Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (RDPC), will be declared the winner of the country’s first ever regional elections.That much is clear, and is expected inside and outside of the west African country...

Attackers fired indiscriminately at schoolchildren in area where separatist insurgents are activeGunmen stormed a school in Cameroon on Saturday and opened fire indiscriminately, killing at least six children and wounding about eight more in a region where separatist insurgents operate, officials and parents said.Arriving on motorbikes and in civilian clothes, the attackers hit the school around midday in the city of Kumba in the...

Exclusive: African state says it has agreements with oil companies in Lake Chad areaChad has asked to suspend an application for world heritage site status for Lake Chad to explore oil and mining opportunities in the region, it can be revealed.In a letter leaked to the Guardian, Chad’s tourism and culture minister wrote to Unesco, the body which awards the world heritage designation, asking...

Fresh cases of disease linked to oral vaccine seen in Sudan, following outbreak in ChadA new polio outbreak in Sudan has been linked to the oral polio vaccine that uses a weakened form of the virus.News of the outbreak comes a week after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that wild polio had been eradicated in Africa. Continue reading...

Ebo forest is home to hundreds of rare species including Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzeesA Cameroonian government decree allowing logging in a forest that is home to some of the world’s most endangered species has sparked outrage among local communities and conservation groups.The richly biodiverse Ebo forest is one of the last intact forests in central Africa and home to hundreds of rare flora and animal species....

More than 60,000 Nigerians live in Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon after fleeing from Boko Haram. Many have PTSD and other mental health conditions because of what they endured. Here are some of their stories Continue reading...

The ruthless quest for gold in eastern Cameroon has left the landscape peppered with deadly open pitsIt was the last day of the summer holidays when, on his way to meet friends in his hometown of Batouri, eastern Cameroon, 12-year-old Saustem Brandon Samba slipped on reddish mud and fell into what at first looked like a large puddle.The puddle turned out to be an...

Authorities believed Mimi Mefo, an award-winning journalist who works for Deutsche Welle in Berlin, might try to stayA Berlin-based journalist who was due to speak at a press freedom conference in Brisbane has said she was denied a visa by the Australian government because they believed she might try to stay.Mimi Mefo, an award-winning Cameroonian journalist who currently works for Deutsche Welle, was scheduled...

An education ban enforced by separatist rebels has affected 600,000 children in English-speaking areasThe lessons at Seraphine Akwa’s house were supposed to be secret. She had been teaching at a primary school in Bamenda, in anglophone Cameroon, but repeated threats had forced the headmaster to shut the school’s doors.The threats were from the “Amba boys”, separatists who have been fighting a two-year battle with...

Unicef report points to three-fold increase in number of schools closed in the region in two years due to intensifying conflictMore than 1.9 million children are forced out of school across west and central Africa due to rising violence and insecurity, putting them at higher risk of recruitment by armed groups, the UN’s children agency has warned.In an urgent report published on Friday, Unicef...