YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — All students and staff abducted more than a week ago from a school in Cameroon’s restive North West region have been freed, a leader of the Presbyterian church said Tuesday.

Two students, the principal and a staff member of Presbyterian Secondary School in the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The Kenyan soccer federation says it will appeal a decision to allow Equatorial Guinea back into the women’s African Cup of Nations in a long-running saga over a player’s eligibility.

Equatorial Guinea was thrown out of the tournament in Ghana, which starts next ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is condemning the kidnapping of 79 pupils and three staff members from a Presbyterian school in a troubled English-speaking region of Cameroon and is calling for their immediate release.

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric says ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroonian authorities have arrested 20 people who were protesting an election they allege was stolen by long-serving President Paul Biya.

The protesters claim Maurice Kamto, the flag bearer of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement party, won the Oct. 7 presidential ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Separatist militants attacked workers on a state-run rubber plantation in restive southwestern Cameroon, chopping off their fingers because the men had defied an order to stay away from the farms, authorities said Friday.

The attack is the second of its kind in ...

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — A missionary from northern Indiana has been fatally shot in the African nation of Cameroon.

Republican Rep. Tim Wesco of Osceola confirmed the death Tuesday morning of his older brother, Charles Wesco of Mishawaka.

Tim Wesco said of his brother, “He loved the ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — An official in Cameroon says anti-riot police have arrested at least two dozen people who staged peaceful protests Saturday against the re-election of President Paul Biya.

Territorial administration minister Paul Atanga Nji said among the arrested is a lawyer who ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil will play its last friendly of the year against Cameroon in London on Nov. 20, its soccer confederation said on Thursday.

The last time the teams met was during the group stage of the 2014 World Cup when Brazil won 4-1 in Brasilia with a Neymar double.

On ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroon’s military on Thursday said “many have been killed” in fighting with Anglophone separatists after launching attacks the day after President Paul Biya was declared the winner of a seventh term.

Biya has called the separatists “terrorists,” and fighting ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is facing new allegations that peacekeepers in Central African Republic sexually assaulted at least three children under 18 and raped three adult women earlier this year, the latest in a series of sexual misconduct claims that have marred U.N. ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to sex trafficking two teen girls has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Citing a U.S. attorney’s office release, news outlets report 25-year-old Roland Chick Akum was sentenced Tuesday.

According to his plea agreement, he ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Citing a graphic video of a beheaded security officer, Amnesty International notes a “horrific escalation of violence” in Cameroon’s English-speaking areas ahead of next month’s presidential election.

The rights group says it has authenticated two videos received last ...

BUEA, Cameroon (AP) — Armed men attacked a school in Cameroon’s southwest English-speaking region, wounding more than 20 people, a government official said Monday.

An unknown number of armed men, using machetes and homemade guns, staged the attack on Saint Joseph’s College near Buea late ...

AKUM, Cameroon (AP) — Armed Anglophone separatists burned buses and blocked traffic into and out of the capital of the English-speaking northwest region, Cameroon’s military said Sunday, and it deployed additional troops.

Separatists said the action in Bamenda is meant to disrupt next ...

BAMENDA, Cameroon (AP) — Hundreds of women gathered for an angry protest in Cameroon on Friday against abuses committed in months of fighting between the government and Anglophone separatists.

With some singing, weeping, crying out or praying, the women described the rapes of their ...

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Former Barcelona and Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto’o has signed for Qatar Sports Club.

The Qatari club said the former Cameroon international would be presented late Tuesday. It’s the 13th club for the 37-year-old Eto’o in a 21-year professional career so far.

The ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — A “horrifying” video circulating on social media shows Cameroon’s security forces shooting at least a dozen unarmed civilians during a counterterror operation in the Far North region, Amnesty International said Friday, and Cameroon said seven soldiers had been ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroon has appointed Clarence Seedorf head coach of the national soccer team with Patrick Kluivert his assistant.

The Cameroon soccer federation hopes the two former Netherlands internationals can lead the team to a second straight African Cup of Nations title on ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief said Wednesday he was “utterly appalled” by a recent video appearing to show Cameroonian soldiers shooting to death women carrying small children as suspected Boko Haram extremists.

“I am deeply worried that these killings captured ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroon’s election commission says more than 20 candidates have registered to run against longtime President Paul Biya in October elections.

Opposition parties earlier this year discussed collectively backing Akere Muna, a prominent lawyer who specializes in ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Violent tensions between Cameroon’s government and Anglophone separatists have forced more than 180,000 people from their homes since December, Human Rights Watch said Thursday in a new report that blames both sides for “grave abuses” against civilians.

Warnings about ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — The Latest on Cameroon (all times local):

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Cameroon’s president, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, says he will run again in October’s election.

The 85-year-old President Paul Biya has been in power since 1982. He oversees an ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroon’s military on Thursday denied its soldiers were involved in a video that appears to show women with small children being blindfolded and shot dead as suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers.

The graphic video circulating on social media caused an outcry and ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Authorities in Cameroon say at least 30 people are dead after a bus crashed on the road that links the political capital, Yaounde, with the western regional capital, Bafoussam.

Governor Naseri Paul Bea says the bus drove into a river in Boutorou town early Friday. ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — Cameroon’s prime minister says 84 soldiers and police have been killed during months of fighting with separatists who seek an English-language state.

Prime Minister Philemon Yang on Wednesday announced a new $220 million emergency humanitarian assistance plan for ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Civilians are caught in a deadly escalation of violence in Cameroon between security forces and separatists seeking an English-speaking state, Amnesty International said in a new report Tuesday.

The human rights group called for an end to “unnecessary and excessive ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — A military tribunal in Cameroon has sentenced seven Anglophone activists to prison on terrorism and other charges as the government continues to crack down on protests in the country’s English-speaking regions.

Defense lawyers for the activists say they will ...