Authorities blame locals for occupying elephant habitats and caution against killing the endangered animals
The military says rebel rocket attacks in the past week have killed at least 15 troops and 13 civilians and destroyed several armored vehicles
People tired of burying civilians caught up in the fighting between country’s military and separatists marched in several cities and towns
More than 850 former Boko Haram fighters and their family members who escaped from jihadist group to Cameroon have left northern Cameroon for Nigeria
Witnesses in northwest town of Kumbo have accused military of killing several civilians during retaliatory raids on separatists
Minister says at least 15 videos of civilians beating and refusing orders from the police have been shared on social media platforms
The central African country is home to about 500,000 refugees, most of them having fled the troubled Central African Republic and Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria
Some children were displaced from Central African Republic because of violence there and dropped out of school to mine gold for survival
Anglophone separatists previously used threats to keep the schools closed, but some rebels, for the first time, are saying they should be spared from the conflict
Cameroon’s military said Thursday that some of the 40 arms traffickers arrested by police in Nigeria last week are regular suppliers of weapons to rebel groups in Cameroon
An increase in the number of combatants defecting from Islamist terror group has prompted the move
Initiative comes after Anglophone separatists in Cameroon and the Indigenous People of Biafra in Nigeria said they would join forces to seek independence
Hundreds of Boko Haram members have been defecting from the Islamist group, including over two hundred on Sunday
Villagers flee across the border into neighboring Chad after clashes over resources left farms and villages destroyed
The military says during a two-week operation, it recovered 70 vehicles the fighters had seized from civilians and rescued several women and children held hostage in separatist camps
During a virtual heads of state summit Tuesday, Central African leaders said the advent of COVID-19 forced the closure of many businesses and caused millions of workers to lose their jobs
General Daniel Sidiki Troare made comments during weekend visit to Cameroon after talks with defense officials
Militias are, for the first time, to tell people about what government says is new strategy by Islamic State in West Africa Province to attract supporters away from rival Boko Haram
The wounded have been rushed to hospitals in Kousseri, a Cameroon border town and the neighboring Chadian capital, Ndjamena
Yaounde plans to deport the former fighters back to their country of origin as the influx has overwhelmed rehabilitation centers along the border
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