A lightning bolt killed five children at their school in northwest Cameroon as they were preparing to begin their school day, a local doctor said Wednesday.
Cameroon's state-run television says two train crashes within 24 hours have killed at least 11 people.
Cameroon's long-ruling president, Paul Biya, sacked his prime minister and reshuffled his cabinet, replacing key officials including the defense minister.
Cameroon's government is employing extrajudicial killings and torture to crush political opponents, and such violence may escalate as the global economic crisis deepens, an international rights group said Thursday.
Government officials and witnesses say at least three dozen people are missing and feared dead after a weekend ferryboat accident off the coast of Cameroon.
Seven French and three African oil workers taken hostage from a tugboat off the coast of Cameroon last month were freed Tuesday.
One of the 10 hostages seized by a local militia off Cameroon's coast last week was killed in a failed rescue attempt by Nigerian marines, a leader of the militia said Wednesday.
A Cameroon militia group took 10 mostly foreign oil workers hostage Friday off this West African nation's coast, and threatened to kill the captives if demands for autonomy talks with the government are not met.
Cameroon held Italy to a 0-0 draw Wednesday despite playing the final 58 minutes with 10 men, a result that sent the Africans to the quarterfinals of the men's Olympic football tournament along with the Azzurrini.
Midfielder Stephane Mbia scored in the second half Sunday to lift Cameroon to a 1-0 victory over Honduras in men's soccer at the Beijing Olympics.
Ten insurgents and two Cameroonian soldiers were killed in a rebel attack in the oil-rich Bakassi peninsula, Cameroon's Defense Minister said on state-run TV on Friday.
State radio in Cameroon says prison guards have killed 16 inmates trying to escape from a jail in the country's commercial capital.
Croatia's Foreign Ministry says a Croatian woman was kidnapped last week in Cameroon along with an Italian citizen.
Three men convicted of homosexuality — a crime in Cameroon — were sentenced to six months' hard labor, their lawyer said Wednesday.
Biochar Fund has reported extremely encouraging first results from its field trials in South West Cameroon.
A new strain of HIV - one that standard AIDS tests may not detect - has been discovered in France. The new type of human immunodeficiency virus appears to have originated in a gorilla disease first isolated in 2006.
A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon.
Gorillas have been found, for the first time, to be a source of HIV.
Ten per cent (around 55 million barrels) of Nigeria's oil is stolen and trafficked every year. In fact, it is estimated that oil production in Nigeria runs at only two thirds of capacity because of theft, vandalism and violence in the Niger Delta.
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"Never be silent in the face of corruption and abuses of power". That was the message Pope Benedict brought to the people of Africa last week. So strong a message that the following day the corrupt President Biya of Cameroon was asked not to seek re-election.
Yesterday, 17 March 2009, Pope Benedict condemned yet further millions of Africans to death.
The pope is trying to take away one of the few things ordinary Africans can do to help themselves
Work crews in Cameroon finished renovating sites Monday and choirs practiced inside a soccer stadium where more than 100,000 faithful are expected for a Mass this week with Pope Benedict XVI.
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Cameroon's last cinema has reportedly closed its doors for a lack of funds, only nine days after films stopped being shown publicly in the capital Yaounde.
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After food prices around the world are starting to soar and the economy's are deflating. People are going back into the jungle to get their daily meals. Apparently food is not the only thing they find.....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least 11 species of African frogs carry a built-in concealed weapon -- they can sprout claws on demand to fight off attackers, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
A document which spells out modalities and procedures for the creation of a University Free Zone in Cameroon has been drawn up and handed to government.
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Rice farmers here are staying awake in shifts at night to guard their fields from thieves [and/or hungry people -- GPP]. In Peru, shortages of wheat flour are prompting the military to make bread with potato flour, a native crop.