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Cameroon activists say riots kill more than 100 (Reuters)

yahoo.com
05-Mar-2008 3 related
        

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Human rights campaigners in Cameroon accused the government on Wednesday of covering up the true death toll from riots last week, in which one organization said at least 100 people were killed. ... But Madeleine Affite, Littoral Province coordinator...

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'More than 100 dead' in Cameroon clashes

worldproutassembly.org
05-Mar-2008
        

Serious unrest began on February 25 in the Central African nation's economic hub of Douala, a Gulf of Guinea port city, and spread in four days to other towns including Yaoundé, the inland capital in central Cameroon.A strike against a rise in fuel prices and protests at the overall high cost of...

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'More than 100 dead' in Cameroon clashes

mg.co.za
05-Mar-2008 11 related
        

More than 100 people died in clashes between demonstrators and police in Cameroon last week, a local human rights group said on Wednesday in the absence of an official toll. "We can already say there are more than 100 dead. News comes in to us every day and we are still checking it out,"...

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Government Forces Three Broadcasters Off Air

allafrica.com
04-Mar-2008 7 related
        

A third broadcaster has been forced off the air in Cameroon for covering violent demonstrations against a rise in prices and a government proposal to eliminate term limits for the President, report the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and...

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Central Africa: CEMAC - Cementing the Way to Integration

allafrica.com
04-Mar-2008 1 related
        

CEMAC countries and finance institutions sign series of loan agreements to accelerate road construction project. ... Inter-regional and intra-regional trade in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) can only grow and blossom if there is a viable road...

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indymedia.org.uk: Douala, February 27 indymedia.org.uk

Proletarian Solidarity against the Repression in Cameroon!

indymedia.org.uk
01-Mar-2008 13 related
        

After last week in Burkina Faso, it is Cameroon this week that has witnessed demonstrations and strikes against inflation and the high cost of living; and the bestial repression of these movements of protest. ... France is always the leading foreign investor there, with...

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Private Radio Suspended, Independent Newspapers Prevented From Appearing

allafrica.com
29-Feb-2008 3 related
        

Reporters Without Borders is concerned at a crackdown against the media which criticised the government following an outbreak of rioting in Douala in the southwest. ... As the communications minister called on newspapers to be "responsible", the unrest has left the...

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Government Reduces Fuel Prices

allafrica.com
28-Feb-2008 5 related
        

After a meeting between Government officials and some leaders of transporters syndicates in Yaounde, the government of Cameroon, Wednesday, February 27, reduced the prices of petroleum products ... Petrol, which sold at FCFA 600 saw a 6 franc reduction to FCFA 594, Gas...

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Cameroonians Go to the Streets

allafrica.com
28-Feb-2008 1 related
        

Cameroonians went to the streets in almost all the ten provinces. They were agitating for several reasons, namely, increase in the price of fuel and other commodities, amendment of the 1996 constitution, human right abuse and many others. It was a pent-up anger that Cameroonians had nursed for a...

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Cameroon: Will the widespread unrest bring political change?

globalvoicesonline.org
28-Feb-2008 48 related
        

Cameroon was besieged by the worst violence in two decades this week, as a transportation strike formally ended by unions on Wednesday expanded into a more general protest against rising food and oil prices and President Biya's attempts to alter the constitution and extend his 25-year rule....

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