Human Rights

International non-governmental organisation, Human Rights Watch, HRW has condemned both Governments of Cameroon and the United States for “serious” human rights abuses they have committed against Cameroonians who sought asylum in the US during the past three years.

The whereabouts of some eight Anglophone youths believed to be activists of the proscribed Southern Cameroon National…

The inability of administrators and security officials in and around Buea, like in other towns in Anglophone regions, to provide adequate security in and around schools, has made it seemingly easy for anti-school agents to attack learners in schools.

Damage left behind by inter-community attack in Wum By Andrew Nsoseka Cameroon’s President, Paul Biya, has been…

In recent weeks, Buea has recorded a trend, whereby taxi drivers who operate on Monday, a day imposed by separatists as ghost town, are attacked either with guns or explosive devices.
This new trend has left observers with the impression that Buea may either be slipping back to days of insecurity or witnessing a new trend in operations meant to implement the separatists’ imposed Monday ghost towns that effectively put on hold commercial activities in the regional capital like most parts of the war-torn Anglophone regions of Cameroon.

Although the 30-year-old appeared in court for the first time since her arrest, the case was dismissed from the Buea High Court for a second time, with presiding Judge, Anne Afong, saying it is legal for Kongnso and her week-old baby to remain in pre-trial detained until April 2022, when the magistrate at the Military Tribunal in Buea must have finalised investigations.

Cameroon Association of English Speaking Journalists, CAMASEJ, has rounded off a three-day capacity building workshop on factoring gender and human rights in reporting the armed conflict in Cameroon’s Southwest and Northwest Region of the country.

According to outlined objectives, the leadership retreat is expected to cultivate and begin nurturing trust among the Southern Cameroonian leaders across religious, traditional, civil society and various armed groups fighting for independence of Anglophone Regions. The retreat is also expected to come out with an agreement on a framework to enhance access to education, humanitarian aid and to uphold human rights in the crisis-hit Regions.

A group of lawyers, led by Barrister Edward Lyonga Ewule, have taken the Gendarmerie Legion Commander in Buea and the Superintendent of the Buea Central Prison to court over the torture and imprisonment of a heavily-pregnant woman, Antoinette Kongnso Gohla, on flimsy excuses that she dated the now dreaded separatist commander, ‘No Pity’, five years ago. The case comes up in Buea on October 22, 2021.

The killing which received wide condemnation and even caused a day long protest was unfortunately not the first in Buea, and certainly not a rare one in the ongoing war against separatist fighters in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions. Like several other victims who have been killed in similar circumstances, little Carolaise was killed in a situation that was uncalled for.