Cameroon has freed two journalists working for the BBC who had been detained by the military for six days on suspicion of spying in the disputed, oil-rich Bakassi peninsula. One of the journalists is South African Farouk Chothia, a producer with the BBC’s African service and a former Mail & Guardian journalist.
For years, populations in northern Cameroon have had to live with bandits and the impact of banditry on economic activities, transport and ordinary people’s lives.
Two pioneers in Aids research who had fallen out bitterly over the discovery of the virus which causes the disease announced that they had joined forces to devise a trial vaccine.
Cameroon’s minister for territorial administration, Ferdinand Koungou Edima, has been dismissed following the last-minute postponement of legislative and municipal elections scheduled for Sunday, officials in the capital Yaounde said.
