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Xinhua | Two mayors and 19 municipal councilors of Cameroon’s main opposition party, the Social Democratic Front (SDF), have been abducted in Northwest, one of the two troubled Anglophone regions of the country, party officials said on Thursday. The mayor of Bamenda II, Fidelis Awa Balick was kidnapped early Thursday, …

The New York Times | On one plate lie cuts of steak, black-edged and blushing, alongside potatoes dauphinoise, and on another, crimson-stained rice suffused with the deep, thrilling funk of guedj, fermented dried fish, and yete, sea snails buried in sand and then dried in the sun, tasting of brine, …

Deutsche Welle | A Canadian university has set up the Database of Atrocities for a part of Cameroon where those seeking independence are facing the wrath of the government. The intiative is intended to prompt the world to act. The University of Toronto in Canada has partnered with universities in …

BBC | Eleven-year-old Mackjourney goes to a secret school in Cameroon. When his family recently fled a separatist rebellion in the country’s English-speaking regions, they thought they had found a place where he could go to school in safety. But that has turned out not to be the case as …

Amnesty International | Amnesty International is launching an updated version of its Citizen Evidence Lab website, bringing together cutting-edge open-source and other digital investigation tools which have revolutionized how evidence of serious human rights violations and other crimes are gathered and preserved. Investigations facilitated by the pioneering Citizen Evidence Lab website …