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AllAfrica.com
March 5, 2018
Cameroon's military took over the construction of roads at its northern borders with Chad and Nigeria after Chinese contractors abandoned the work following repeated attacks from armed Boko Haram fighters. Hundreds of curious onlookers, including businesswoman and politician Amkress Djibrine,Ãâà...
Voice of America
March 5, 2018
The captives were released in October along with 17 other hostages and the wife of Cameroon Vice-Prime Minister Ahmadou Ali. Cameroon public works minister Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi says since then, they found it impossible to convince the Chinese to go back to work and called on the militaryÃâà...
The Punch
August 31, 2017
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Nigeria's Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating at 'B+' with a negative outlook. Reuters on Thursday reported that Nigeria's ratings were supported by its large and diversified economy, significant oil reserves, its net external creditor position, low external debt serviceÃâà...
Newsweek
December 31, 2015
... Join Fight Against Boko Haram Ãâ÷ Nigeria. Cameroon: Suspected Boko Haram Suicide Bomber Kills 10 Ãâ÷ 1202 Boko Haram protest Cameroon Ãâ÷ Double Suicide Blast in Cameroon as Boko Haram Pushes Across West Africa Ãâ÷ Bring back our girls. Boko Haram Kidnaps Wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister.
BBC News
January 18, 2015
They included 10 Chinese workers and the wife of Cameroon's Vice-Prime Minister Amadou Ali. It is not clear how their release was secured. Several French hostages have also been kidnapped in Cameroon by Boko Haram and subsequently released. France and Cameroon denied paying a large ransomÃâà...
CBC.ca
October 11, 2014
Boko Haram releases 27 hostages, including wife of Cameroon's vice-prime minister ... Twenty-seven hostages seized by militant group Boko Haram in Cameroon in May and July have been released, including 10 Chinese workers and the wife of Cameroon's vice-prime minister, authorities said onÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
September 25, 2014
Motorbikes were singled out in a targeted curfew after suspected Boko Haram members abducted the wife of Cameroon's vice prime minister, Amadou Ali, on the eve of Ramadan in July. A municipal official was also abducted and several people were killed in the attack at Kolofata, a village with relatives onÃâà...
Voice of America
August 18, 2014
Late last month, Boko Haram militants kidnapped the wife of Cameroon's vice prime minister and killed at least three people in a cross-border attack involving more than 200 assailants in the northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon officials. The fleeing residents argue that if the wife of a high-level official couldÃâà...
VICE News
July 28, 2014
Boko Haram's bloody uprising in Nigeria shows no sign of abating, as demonstrated by a recent spate of renewed violence throughout the country over the weekend. A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Monday at a gas station in Kano, Nigeria's second largest city, killing three people. It is the thirdÃâà...
Newsweek
July 27, 2014
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - The wife of Cameroon's vice prime minister was kidnapped and at least three people were killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants on in the northern town of Kolofata on Sunday, Cameroon officials said. A local religious leader, or lamido, named Seini Boukar Lamine, who is alsoÃâà...
EBONY.com
July 16, 2013
Two teenage boys are being hailed as heroes after they chased a car carrying a kidnapped girl — on their bicycles. Five-year-old Jocelyn Rojas was playing in her front yard in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when she vanished Thursday afternoon. Authorities believe she was abducted by a man who lured herÃâà...
UN News Centre
April 26, 2013
To date, experts from Cameroon and Nigeria, assisted by those from the United Nations, have agreed on the placement of boundary pillars representing 95 percent of the assessment work,” Amadou Ali, Vice-Prime Minister of Cameroon, said in the UNOWA release. To address growing security challengesÃâà...
UN News Centre
April 26, 2013
To date, experts from Cameroon and Nigeria, assisted by those from the United Nations, have agreed on the placement of boundary pillars representing 95 percent of the assessment work,” Amadou Ali, Vice-Prime Minister of Cameroon, said in the UNOWA release. To address growing security challengesÃâà...
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