🇨🇲#Cameroon: ISWAP militants have attempted to storm a new position of The Rapid Intervention Battalion (Bataillon d'intervention rapide - BIR, a special forces unit of the Cameroonian Armed Forces) in the town of Bargaram, near the Nigerian border.
At least five militants were killed in the failed attack, including one who was reportedly a foreigner. Footage shows the equipment that the BIR captured from the dead militants, including a camera which was supposed to be used in order to film the attack as further propaganda.
(via @BrantPhilip_ on X)
Cameroon officer lynched for killing five-year-old
A mob lynched a military police officer after he killed a five-year-old girl when he fired on a car at a checkpoint in the capital of Cameroon's English-speaking South West Region, the defense ministry said.
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#UK to end study visas for #Sudan, #Cameroon, Myanmar, Afghanistan students
The United Kingdom says it will end study visas for students from #Afghanistan, Cameroon, #Myanmar and Sudan, and work visas for Afghans, amid a rise in anti-immigration sentiment in the country.
The UK Home Office said in a statement on Tuesday that “an ’emergency brake’ on visas has been imposed for the first time on nationals from four countries”, following a surge in asylum claims by students on study visas.
The Home Office said the number of asylum applications by students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan had “rocketed” by more than 470 percent between 2021 and 2025.
“Britain will always provide refuge to people fleeing war and persecution, but our visa system must not be abused,” Secretary of State for the Home Department Shabana Mahmood said.
“That is why I am taking the unprecedented......
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/4/uk-to-end-study-visas-for-myanmar-afghanistan-cameroon-sudan-students