Cameroon's security forces put down a riot by prisoners who ransacked and burnt a jail in the capital Yaounde overnight, witnesses told AFP on Tuesday. The rioters, many of them government opponents ...

YAOUNDE, March 8 (Reuters) - Cameroon's President, Paul Biya, has raised state salaries by 15 percent and suspended customs duties on basic foodstuffs like fish, rice and cooking oil to ease ...

YAOUNDE, June 5 (Reuters) - Cameroon security forces used water cannons late on Saturday to disperse rioting soccer fans angered by Cameroon's draw with Senegal that dimmed the team's chances of ...

YAOUNDE, Cameroon, Feb. 28 -- Authorities in the central African country of Cameroon appealed Thursday for negotiations to defuse the worst anti-government riots in more than a decade, but an ...