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YAOUNDE, CAMEROON VOA | Nigerians living in Cameroon are asking both their government and their host country for help after at least 20 Nigerians were killed in separatist violence. Ngozi Ester, 27, says she, her husband and three children escaped from the English-speaking northwestern town of Kumbo after suspected separatists …

Cameroon’s conflict keeps schools shut BBC | Schoolchildren have become pawns in the fierce conflict between Cameroon’s mainly French-speaking government and separatist fighters demanding independence for the country’s English-speaking heartlands. The separatists are enforcing a lockdown across cities, towns and villages in the North-West and South-West regions to ensure schools …

GOAL | The African football icon had announced his decision to call time on his 22-year playing career on Friday Former Barcelona captain Carles Puyol, present club captain Lionel Messi, former Chelsea forward Didier Drogba and a host of football stars have sent their best wishes to Samuel Eto’o after …

FOX Sports Asia | Former Barcelona, Chelsea & Real Madrid forward Samuel Eto’o has announced retirement from football after a 22-year long glittering career. The 38-year-old’s last club was Qatar Star League side Qatar SC, which he joined in the summer of 2018 from Turkey’s Konyaspor. In a career spanning …

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Robert Mugabe, the former leader of Zimbabwe forced to resign in 2017 after a 37-year rule whose early promise was eroded by economic turmoil, disputed elections and human rights violations, has died in Singapore. He was 95. His successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa confirmed Mugabe’s death in a tweet …

International Cement Review | Cimenterie du Cameroon (LafargeHolcim) has launched its new Sublim brand of white cement, the first white cement product to be released in the country. The cement is produced at the company’s Bonabéri plant. It held the official launch at the Hotel La Falaise Bonapriso. The company …