In March, Taiwan pulled out of a World Trade Organization ministerial conference in Cameroon after the host country designated the island as a “Province of China” on visa documents for members of Taiwan’s delegation.
The 13 countries are Haiti, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Nepal, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, South Sudan, Burma (also known as Myanmar), Somalia, and Ethiopia.
YAOUNDE, Cameroon—Residents of a town in Cameroon are complaining about damage to their homes caused by a nearby quarry that was created by a state-owned Chinese company.
BAMENDA, Cameroon—All 78 children and a driver kidnapped from a boarding school in Cameroon have been freed, school authorities said on Wednesday, Nov. 7.
BATOURI, Cameroon—Two days before the end of December in 2017, nine people died in a fatal cave-in at a mining site in Ngoe Ngoe, a village of more than 2,500 residents in the East Region of Cameroon.
YAOUNDE, Cameroon—Armed men kidnapped at least 79 students and three staff members from a Presbyterian school in a troubled English-speaking region of Cameroon, the governor said Nov. 5.
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EBOLOWA, Cameroon—Activists say a company controlled by a Chinese-state owned conglomerate in Cameroon is threatening the biodiversity in the country and endangering indigenous people.
Another suicide bomb exploded in the town of Waza in north Cameroon on Saturday, but no casualties were reported other than the bomber, the sources said.
Yaounde, Sept. 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)—When frequent flooding became too much for the residents of Nkolbikok, a neighborhood in Cameroon’s capital, they decided to take matters into their own hands—with gloves and wheelbarrows. Some of the 6,000 inhabitants now carry out daily trash pickups and monthly cleanups of the swampy area’s once trash-choked wetlands and […]
The governor of the Far North Region of Cameroon, Midjiyawa Bakari, said that 5,000 Nigerians have been sent back to their country within the past two months.
Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was headed to a northern Cameroon refugee camp on April 18 when her convoy struck and killed a 7-year-old boy.
More recently, Nigeria accused Cameroon of doing little to prevent Boko Haram from using their territory as a refuge.
Cameroon saw Buhari's failure to visit earlier as a snub, and its president, Paul Biya, didn't to attend his May inauguration.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—Girl suicide bombers killed 12 people over the weekend in Nigeria and Cameroon, officials said Monday of the attackers who were stopped for routine searches.
Nearly all the children are under 15, the age at which they can face criminal charges under a regional human rights charter of which Cameroon is a signatory.
Customs and Border Protection discovered a monkey carcass inside the luggage of a traveler from Cameroon, at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on April 11, 2026. (U.S.
YAOUNDE, Cameroon—A Cameroon governor says the country's north has banned women from wearing burkas and face-covering veils after suicide bombings by females in burkas killed at least 14 people in a northern town on Sunday.
Investigators also established that Cameroon had confirmed the vessel was sailing under that country's flag, which had not been clear when the vessel and its 24-member crew was stopped Friday, the coast guard said.
The nonprofit stated that nearly 1 million people have been displaced in Cameroon due to an ongoing armed conflict, and that now is not the right time to force the return of Cameroonians.
"The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters," Pope Leo said April 16 during a speech in Cameroon.
