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This report is produced by OCHA Cameroon in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It was issued on 15 April. It covers the period from 1 to 31 March 2019. The next report will be issued in early May 2019. View Original HIGHLIGHTS • Acute humanitarian needs continue to be no the …

MENAFN | Local authorities in Cameroon’s restive English-speaking region of Northwest declared that 31 armed separatists have surrendered and started re-integration operation into society. Sixtus Gabsa, Northwest regional director of the National Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Committee (NDDRC) confirmed: “We have 31 ex-fighters who have already dropped their weapons and …

Business in Cameroon | Cameroonian customs seized on April 14 in Douala, the country’s economic capital, a truck with a cargo of more than 200,000 pills of Tramol and 7,000 liters of smuggled fuel, authorized sources said. Cargo probably from Nigeria, Customs say, was first transported to the small locality …

YAOUNDE, April 14 Xinhua | — At least six people were killed and several others injured early Sunday during an anti-separatism military operation in Ekona, a locality in Southwest, one of Cameroon’s two war-torn English-speaking regions, local sources said. The army searched for secessionist-terrorists in the bushes and found them …

Human Rights Watch |  Cameroonian soldiers, gendarmes, and members of the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR) carried out a deadly attack on the North-West region village of Meluf on April 4, 2019. Government forces killed five civilian men, including one with a mental disability, and wounded one woman. Three of the bodies …