17, November 2017
National Assembly Fire Disaster: Cavaye Djibril watched helplessly 0
The National Assembly building at Ngoa-Ekelle has suffered its third fire since its construction. But that which occurred yesterday, November 16, 2017 remains the most serious.
Cameroon Concord News gathered that it took about three hours to completely extinguish the fire that broke out around 9 pm yesterday.
The fury of the flames consumed the third and fourth floors before firefighters could control the spread of the flames. The fire was reportedly turned off shortly after midnight.
Some French Cameroun MPs, including the Honorable Cavaye Yegui Djibril, rushed to the scene and watched helplessly.
After 1995 and 2013, it is the third time since its construction that the glass house at Ngoa Ekelle is attacked by fire. The Francophone dominated security agencies have opened an investigation.
By Sama Ernest in Yaounde
20, November 2017
Suicide attack kills 3 children in northern Cameroon 0
Three children were killed and several others injured in a suicide bomb attack in northern Cameroon. The attack occurred Monday morning in the town of Kolofata, in Cameroon’s Far North Region near the Nigerian border.
“The suicide bomber hid the explosive device in a bag of beans which he was carrying,” said Gen. Bouba Dobekreo, commander of a joint military operation. Dobekreo added that the explosion killed four people, including three children and the suicide bomber himself, a man in his forties.
“Several injured were transported by soldiers to Mora Hospital,” said Bakari Midjiyawa, the region’s governor. Cameroon’s Far North has been relatively calm for the past two weeks. Last month several Boko Haram terrorists surrendered to Cameroonian authorities.
“The return of these former Boko Haram fighters doesn’t mean the end of the war,” warned Alfred Fuller, a retired colonel, and analyst. “It could be a strategy for the group to trick the troops and revive major attacks,” he added.
Cameroon has been fighting the Nigerian insurgent group since 2014. Boko Haram attacks have killed nearly 2,500 Cameroonians between 2014 and 2017, according to Cameroon’s Defense Ministry. The UN refugee agency estimates approximately 26 million people in the Lake Chad region have been affected by Boko Haram violence, and more than 2.6 million displaced.
Source: World Bulletin