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Cameroonian Franklin Mufor stabbed to death in Pretoria as family seeks answers

Franklin Mufor, 40, was found stabbed to death in Pretoria on Tuesday, September 15, 2026. Photo: Family handout.
The 40-year-old was found dead after leaving home to charge his phone nearby. His killing comes amid growing regional concern over violence against African migrants in South Africa. Cameroonian national Franklin Mufor has been stabbed to death in Pretoria, South Africa, leaving his family waiting for answers as police investigate the killing. The 40-year-old’s body […]

Is Atanga Nji Now Controlling the Ambazonia Armed Struggle? Separatists’ Own Claims Raise an Uncomfortable Question

Atanga Nji Paul
For years, supporters of the Ambazonia separatist movement have blamed some of the worst attacks on civilians on supposed “Atanga Nji Boys” or former fighters linked to government DDR centres. The allegation remains unproven. But its constant repetition raises a question the movement itself may eventually have to answer: if so many of those carrying […]

Spiro Cameroon Supports 100 Displaced Girls as New School Year Begins in Douala

One hundred girls displaced by the armed conflict in Cameroon’s North-West and South-West Regions have received school supplies and educational support in Douala as they begin the 2026/2027 academic year. The back-to-school initiative, held on Friday, September 11, at Mount Zion Nursery and Primary School in Mabanda, Bonaberi, brought together electric mobility company Spiro Cameroon, […]

What Does Democracy Actually Mean for Cameroonians in 2026?

Paul Biya 93, is an example of where democracy has lost its meaning
On paper, the answer in Cameroon appears straightforward. The Constitution describes Cameroon as a democratic and social state and, more importantly, Article 2 declares that national sovereignty belongs to the Cameroonian people. Those who govern, it says, derive their authority from the people through elections. But constitutions describe principles. Democracy ultimately has to be experienced. […]

The MRC Owes Michèle Ndoki an Apology. Should It Ask Her Back?

Michèle Ndoki
Maurice Kamto has resigned from the leadership of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement, MRC. Mamadou Mota has also stepped down, and attention has already shifted to the question of who should take over the party. That is understandable. Political parties must think about succession. But before the MRC rushes into its next chapter, there is an […]

At Least 26 Women and Girls Killed or Suspected Killed in Cameroon in Six Weeks, MMI News Review Finds

At Least 26 Women and Girls Killed or Suspected Killed in Cameroon in Six Weeks
At least 26 women and girls were killed, or died in cases reported as suspected killings, across Cameroon between August 1 and September 11, 2026, according to an MMI News review of police accounts, government media, local news reports and subsequent investigation updates. The victims range from a three-year-old girl in Douala to adult women […]

Ndichia Foundation prepares over 350 underprivileged children for 2026 -2027 School Year

Ndichia Foundation has provided school supplies to more than 350 children in Bamenda
By Jean Marie Song. The beneficiaries, 150 boys and 160 girls, needy Primary and Secondary School children, mostly orphans, physically challenged and internally displaced children in Bamenda have received didactic materials thanks to the kind gesture of Ndichia Foundation. This was Saturday August 29 2026.The children from Ntankah, Ntamulung and Mulang and surrounding areas received […]

Cameroonian woman, 24, stabbed to death in Germany as ex-partner is held on suspicion of murder

Cameroonian woman Yomi Mbakob Virginie Sonya, killed by her 29-year-old partner
A 24-year-old Cameroonian woman, Yomi Mbakob Virginie Sonya, has been killed in Germany, with prosecutors accusing her 29-year-old Congolese former partner and father of her child of carrying out the fatal attack. Virginie was attacked at about 6:30 a.m. on Monday, August 31, 2026, on Leo-Hendrik-Baekeland-Straße in Erkner, a town in the German state of […]

From Rejection to Resilience: The Guardian Post Marks 25 Years in Cameroon’s Tough Media Landscape

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Kristian Ngah Christian traces the birth of The Guardian Post to one of the most disappointing moments of his early career.
For 25 years, The Guardian Post has been part of Cameroon’s political conversations, democratic struggles, social debates and changing media landscape. On August 30, 2026, one of Cameroon’s most established and credible private newspapers marked its silver jubilee. This is exactly a quarter of a century after its first edition appeared on newsstands on August […]

Delly Singah Challenges Atanga Nji: ‘What Is the State Doing?’ as Femicide Cases Rise in Cameroon

Delly Singah and Atanga Nji Paul
Cameroonian philanthropist and social media influencer Delly Singah has challenged Territorial Administration Minister Paul Atanga Nji and the government to move beyond public condemnations of femicide and establish concrete systems capable of protecting people before domestic violence ends in death. In a strongly worded open letter addressed to Atanga Nji, Singah said Cameroon can no […]

Ben Modo’s Return to Biya Raises a Darker Question: Was His “Revolution” Ever Really Opposition?

Ben Modo shifts support from Biya to Tchiroma and then back to Biya
The businessman who accused Issa Tchiroma Bakary of betrayal for refusing to force Paul Biya from power now says he supports Biya and is ready to work with his government. In Cameroon, where an armed conflict has already shown how quickly mass political resistance can be converted into a war that strengthens the very state […]

Samuel Wazizi: Seven Years After His Death in Military Custody, Family Still Awaits His Body

Samuel Wazizi—Cameroonian journalist murdered by the military
Seven years after the date the Cameroonian military says journalist Samuel Ajiekah Abuwe, popularly known as Samuel Wazizi, died in its custody, his family is still waiting for his body and for definitive answers about what happened to him. Wazizi, a broadcast journalist and cameraman with Buea-based Chillen Music Television (CMTV), was known for reporting […]

Jason Arday was examined line by line. Who examined Nathan Cofnas?

Nathan Cofnas and Jason Arday
The plagiarism questions around Professor Jason Arday were legitimate. But the man who helped push them into public view had himself publicly advanced a proposition that has attracted far less scrutiny than it deserves — that inherited differences in intelligence help explain racial inequality. Britain interrogated one Black professor. It has barely begun to interrogate […]

Myanmar Bans Book Exposing Trafficking of African Workers Into Scam Compounds, Rights Center Says

Myanmar Scam Compounds: Rights Center Says Book Exposing Trafficking of African Workers Has Been Banned
A human rights organisation has announced that a book examining the trafficking and forced labour of migrant workers inside Myanmar’s sprawling cyberscam industry has been banned in the country, placing renewed attention on criminal networks that have trapped hundreds of thousands of people from Africa and other parts of the world with fraudulent promises of […]

A Taste of Home, Thousands of Miles Away: How One Entrepreneur Is Connecting Cameroon’s Diaspora to Its Roots

Eagle Eye Logistics – “We Deal With the Hassle Whilst You Relax.”
For many Cameroonians living thousands of kilometres from home, missing Cameroon can show up in surprisingly ordinary ways. It could be the craving for a particular meal prepared with ingredients that do not quite taste the same when substituted abroad. It could be traditional clothing for a wedding, a family celebration or cultural event. Or […]

Daïna Tikeng Fled an Abusive Marriage. She Was Later Found Dead Outside Yaoundé

Daïna Tikeng was killed by her husband Malayo Meli
The killing of Daïna Tikeng, the young woman, reportedly married for only two months, comes amid a sharp rise in killings of women in Cameroon and renewed questions over whether victims of domestic violence have anywhere safe to go when they decide to leave. Daïna Tikeng did what women trapped in violent relationships are often […]

DEHFOPAD Launches Free Education Programme for Pupils of Government School Ebamut

DEHFOPAD
The Dione Etiba Humanitarian Foundation for Peace and Development, DEHFOPAD, has launched a free education initiative for pupils of Government School Ebamut for the 2026/2027 academic year, seeking to ensure that poverty does not keep children out of the classroom. Under the programme, every child enrolled at the school will receive educational support at no […]

Bishop Bibi Forgives Fr George Nkeze, Opens Path to Ministry After Six-Year CUIB Rift

Bishop Bibi and Fr George Nkeze
The Bishop of Buea, Most Rev. Michael Miabesue Bibi, has formally accepted an apology from Rev. Fr George Jingwa Nkeze and announced plans to facilitate his return to active priestly ministry, potentially bringing one of the Diocese’s most divisive disputes to an end. In a communiqué dated August 4, 2026, Bishop Bibi published a reply […]

Dr Woloa Monono Designated Chief of Great Soppo, Rival Contests Kingmakers’ Choice

Dr Woloa Monono Designated Chief of Great Soppo, Rival Contests Kingmakers’ Choice
Inside an incomplete building opposite the Palapala Field at Bakweri Town, Buea, the Senior Divisional Officer of Fako, Viang Mekala, asked the seven kingmakers of Great Soppo to choose their Chief. Before that, the two candidates contesting to lead the Second Class Chiefdom—Barrister Henry Ngale Monono and Dr. Absalom Woloa Monono—had stood before the eagerly […]

The Geneva Presidency: What Happens If Paul Biya Simply Never Comes Back?

Paul Biya
Fifty-six days after President Paul Biya left Cameroon for what the Presidency called a “brief private stay,” the Constitution provides no deadline for his return, and the official empowered to activate the procedure for permanent incapacity has never been appointed. Today, Sunday, 2 August, marks 56 days since President Paul Biya left Cameroon. It is […]