Cameroon

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria's Borno state, the epicentre of an ongoing Islamist insurgency, will shut all camps that are...

MAIDUGURI (Reuters) - Nigerian troops killed 24 suspected Islamist insurgents in two attacks in the northeast and recovered some weapons,...

By Blaise Eyong and Josiane Kouagheu BUEA, Cameroon (Reuters) -A mob lynched a military police officer after he killed a...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The U.N. General Assembly on Thursday elected the United States to the Geneva-based Human...

By Felix Onuah and Estelle Shirbon ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria's top general said on Thursday that Abu Musab al-Barnawi, leader of...

DOUALA (Reuters) - Distant machine gun fire interrupted a speech by Cameroonian Prime Minister Dion Ngute on Tuesday during a...

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Chad's transitional government said on Friday that it plans to drastically increase the size of its army...

DOUALA (Reuters) - Separatist rebels have killed 15 Cameroonian soldiers and several civilians in two bomb attacks this month, the...

By Josiane Kouagheu YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A court in Cameroon has sentenced four people to death for their roles in...

ABUJA (Reuters) - Close to 6,000 fighters from the Boko Haram Islamist insurgent group in northeast Nigeria have surrendered in...

DOUALA (Reuters) - Clashes between herders and fishermen in northern Cameroon have killed at least 32 people this month, with...

By Libby George LAGOS (Reuters) - Helicopters hover above a patrol vessel in Nigeria's frenetic Apapa port as attack boats...

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) -Around 11,000 people fleeing clashes between herders and fishermen in northern Cameroon arrived in neighbouring Chad at the...

By Josiane Kouagheu DOUALA (Reuters) - Clashes between herders and fishers in northern Cameroon have killed at least 12 people...

N'DJAMENA (Reuters) -At least 26 Chadian soldiers were killed in the early hours of Thursday by suspected Boko Haram assailants...

(Corrects spelling of reporter's name) DOUALA (Reuters) -Unidentified attackers killed five Cameroonian soldiers and one civilian during a raid on...

DOUALA (Reuters) - At least six Cameroonian soldiers were killed and four wounded during an attack by Islamist insurgents on...

DOUALA (Reuters) - The five months that two transgender women in Cameroon spent in prison were "hell", one of them...

DOUALA (Reuters) - Two transgender women in Cameroon convicted in May of "attempted homosexuality" were ordered released from prison on...

DOUALA, Cameroon (Reuters) - Police in Cameroon fired tear gas on Saturday morning as they clashed with residents fighting eviction...