YAOUNDE, Sept 18, 2008 (AFP) - A truck hit a bus in southwest Cameroon on Thursday killing 11 people and injuring two others, rescue services said.

The bus was headed towards Douala, the economic capital, carrying 13 people when it was hit by the truck which had reeled off course, an emergency official said.

YAOUNDE, August 29, 2008 (AFP) - A petrol tanker en route from Nigeria to Chad overturned and burst into flames in northern Cameroon, killing two people and injuring 15, local authorities said Friday.

The trial of Cameroon`s main opposition leader John Fru Ndi, charged with complicity in the killing ...

Nine prisoners died Wednesday in a fire in Cameroon`s notorious New Bell prison in the west African ...

Polygamist Sunday Binang, 52, wore a melancholic look as he bemoaned Thursday the loss of his ...

Nigeria on Thursday handed over the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon to end a 15-year dispute over a ...

Nigeria was set to complete the handover of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon on Thursday, ending a ...

Nigeria was set to complete the handover of the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon on Thursday, ending a ...

Nigeria will hand over the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon on Thursday, putting an end to a ...

British police charged a 28-year-old man on Tuesday with the murder of his father, a Cameroon ...

Police raided a key prison in the west African country of Cameroon and seized hundreds of escape ...

Chronic overcrowding, open toilets, abysmal food, rampant corruption and sexual abuse: inmates and ...

YAOUNDE, August 4, 2008 (AFP) - A Cameroonian journalist has been jailed for six months for defamation after writing that a government minister was homosexual, various sources told AFP on Monday.

Homosexuality is illegal in the Western African nation.

ABUJA, August 1, 2008 (AFP) - Nigeria's scheduled August 14 handover of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon remains on track, despite a court order to delay the move, the president's office says.

'Our country has a commitment to handover the peninsula by August 14 and so far nothing has changed,' said presidential spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi.

ABUJA, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - A Nigerian court on Thursday granted an injunction preventing Nigeria handing over the oil-rich peninsula of Bakassi to Cameroon by August 14 in line with a ruling of the world court.

'The justice of this case is that parties to this suit should maintain the status quo...'judge Mohammed Umar said in a federal court ruling in Abuja.

ABUJA, 25 juillet 2008 (AFP) - Nigeria is fully committed to an agreement to hand over to Cameroon next month the disputed and potentially oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula, Nigeria's presidency said in a statement Friday.

YAOUNDE, July 24, 2008 (AFP) - Twelve people, including two Cameroonian soldiers, were killed Thursday in a new attack by an armed gang in the oil rich west of the country close to the Nigerian border, the defence minister said.

Ten the assailants were killed and another eight taken prisoner, the minister Remy Ze Meka said in a statement.

WARSAW, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - A Cameroonian poet and activist living in Poland as a refugee since 1999 went on trial Friday in Warsaw charged with having 'knowingly infected' 11 women with the HIV virus, his lawyer said.

YAOUNDE, July 7, 2008 (AFP) - Cameroonian authorities have lifted bans on two private media networks which had criticised a constitutional amendment to allow longserving President Paul Biya a third term, a daily said Monday.

YAOUNDE, June 30, 2008 (AFP) - Cameroon's government has delayed by six months setting up an independent electoral commission, a move opposition forces have been demanding for nearly 20 years, national radio reported on Monday.

YAOUNDE, June 30, 2008 (AFP) - Cameroon's government has delayed by six months setting up an independent electoral commission, a move opposition forces have been demanding for nearly 20 years, national radio reported on Monday.

YAOUNDE, June 29, 2008 (AFP) - A Cameroon prison break on Sunday left at least 16 inmates dead as security forces exchanged fire with armed prisoners, national radio reported.

YAOUNDE, June 9, 2008 (AFP) - Armed men abducted a top regional official in an attack Monday on Cameroonian troops on the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula bordering Nigeria, a defence ministry official told AFP.

YAOUNDE, June 9, 2008 (AFP) - Armed men abducted a top regional official in an attack Monday on Cameroonian troops on the Bakassi peninsula bordering Nigeria, a defence ministry source told AFP.

The official was accompanying the soldiers on the Akwa Yafe river, near the Nigerian territory of Ikang, when they were attacked by men from another craft.

YAOUNDE, June 9, 2008 (AFP) - Prices for two of Cameroon's most popular rice varieties have risen by 15 and 21 percent respectively, a government statement said Monday, three months after food riots left at least 40 people dead.

In the capital Yaounde 'Type 25 percent' rice rose 15 percent to 335 CFA francs (0.51 euros/0.80 dollars) a kilo from 291 CFA francs.

GENEVA, April 16, 2008 (AFP) - Financially troubled Cameroon Airlines has been suspended from a ticket compensation scheme operated by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), an IATA spokesman said Wednesdsay.

'Camair is still an IATA member, although we recognise they do have difficulties,' Anthony Council told AFP.

YAOUNDE, April 10, 2008 (AFP) - Cameroon's parliament on Thursday amended the constitution enabling President Paul Biya to run in 2011 for a third term of office, Minister for Parliamentary Relations Gregoire Owona said.

YAOUNDE, April 4, 2008 (AFP) - A plan to revise Cameroon's constitution, enabling President Paul Biya, in power since 1982, to run for office again in 2011, was placed before parliament Friday, drawing fire from opposition.

YAOUNDE, April 1, 2008 (AFP) - Sixteen people were killed Tuesday after a bus rammed into a truck near the Cameroon capital Yaounde, public radio said.

Fourteen others were injured in the smash at Efok, some 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of Yaounde.

YAOUNDE, March 19, 2008 (AFP) - Cameroon is lowering electricity prices from next month, the state regulator said Wednesday in the latest government concession since deadly protests over the rising cost of living.

The regulator said 62 percent of Cameroonian households would benefit from new tariffs.

CONAKRY, March 17, 2008 (AFP) - At least 11 people, including nine students from Cameroon, drowned when a boat sank off Guinea's capital Conakry, and three people are still missing, medical and Cameroonian sources said Monday.

GENEVA, March 12, 2008 (AFP) - Rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Switzerland not to deport a gay teenager back to his home country of Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal.

But Swiss officials rejected Amnesty's appeal, saying the matter was closed.

GENEVA, March 12, 2008 (AFP) - Rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Switzerland not to deport a gay teenager back to his home country of Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal.

Anatole Zali, 18, is currently being held in a detention unit at Zurich airport after Swiss authorities rejected his asylum application on February 14, Amnesty said.

YAOUNDE, March 10, 2008 (AFP) - Cameroon's government said Monday that 40 people died during violence that erupted in several cities at the end of February, raising its official toll from 24.

YAOUNDE, March 7, 2008 (AFP) - Taxes on essential goods have been dropped and civil service salaries are to rise by 15 percent, Cameroon national radio announced Friday following violent protests last week.

Products including fish, flour, wheat and rice will benefit from the new customs duty exemption, with cement also seeing a reduction in duty, a presidential order said.

YAOUNDE, March 5, 2008 (AFP) - Cameroon's government said Wednesday that 24 people died during last week's violence, after a human rights group had earlier put the tally at 'more than 100'.

'Twenty-four people perished,' Communication Minister Jean-Pierre Biyiti Bi Essam told AFP.

YAOUNDE, March 5, 2008 (AFP) - More than 100 people died in clashes between demonstrators and police in Cameroon last week, a local human rights group said Wednesday in the absence of an official toll.

YAOUNDE, March 3, 2008 (AFP) - Chadian opposition leader Ngarlejy Yorongar, who had been missing since a government crackdown following a rebel assault on the capital, has fled to Cameroon, he said Monday.

'My health isn't good, but I'm still alive to bear witness. That's all I can say for now,' he told AFP by telephone one month after his disappearance.

YAOUNDE, March 3, 2008 (AFP) - Chadian opposition leader Ngarlejy Yorongar, missing since a rebel assault on the capital Ndjamena, has gone to neighbouring Cameroon and could head for France, a diplomat said Monday.

'He is safe,' said the diplomat, who asked not to be named. 'The Cameroonian authorities have agreed to take him in ... It's possible he will go to France.'

YAOUNDE, Feb 29, 2008 (AFP) - While troops were still out in Cameroon's capital Friday, cities were calm, but a private radio station said police had shut it down after listeners criticised the president during a talk show.