Tag: Georges Vandenbeusch

Boko Haram causing ‘untold misery’ in northern Cameroon

December 9, 2016 Cameroon Boko Haram, Far North, Georges Vandenbeusch, Lake Chad, Mayo-Tsanaga, Nguetchewe

Nearly 170,000 people have fled their homes in N. Cameroon, while the area has received at least 73,000 Nigerian refugees. World watch Monitor “Yesterday I had just one cup of millet [grain] left. There are 12 people in our house. We went to bed last night not knowing what we’ll . . . Read More

Christian and Muslim clerics pledge to tackle insecurity in N. Cameroon

May 3, 2014 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Georges Vandenbeusch, Maroua

About 40 Christian and Muslim leaders met in Maraoua, Cameroon on April 23-24, to promote a culture of peace and tolerance between members of different religious communities.World Watch Monitor The focus of the search for the missing Nigerian girls has moved across the Nigerian borders – to Cameroon and . . . Read More

Canadian nun and two priests abducted in Cameroon

April 10, 2014 Cameroon Boko Haram, Catholics, Far North, Georges Vandenbeusch, Maroua, Nigeria

The two priests Giampaolo Marta, 47, and Gianantonio Allegri, 57, in a classroom.Courtesy of Vicenza Diocese, Italy A Canadian nun and two Italian priests have been kidnapped by armed men in northern Cameroon, a region which serves as a base for Nigeria’s radical Islamist group Boko Haram. The Canadian . . . Read More

Freed priest returns to France

January 4, 2014 Cameroon Boko Haram, Cameroon, Georges Vandenbeusch

Georges Vandenbeusch, the French priest held hostage for nearly seven weeks in Cameroon, returned to France on New Year’s Day. President Francois Hollande greeted the 42-year-old cleric at an Air Force base near Paris early on Jan. 1, after France Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius received him in the Cameroon capital of Yaounde. The . . . Read More

Nigeria’s Boko Haram strikes again in Cameroon

December 4, 2013 Cameroon Ansaru, Boko Haram, Far North, Georges Vandenbeusch, Nigeria

In April last year, churches were targeted by suspected Boko Haram militants. Some victims had their throats cut, while others were beaten to death or burned alive. Here is one of the survivors, whose name is being withheld to protect his security.Cameroon Human Rights Monitoring A missionary has been . . . Read More

French priest ‘kidnapped’ by Nigeria’s Boko Haram in Cameroon

November 19, 2013 Cameroon Ansaru, Boko Haram, Georges Vandenbeusch, Katsina, Kidnapping, Nguetchewe, Nigeria, Sahel

A French priest abducted in northern Cameroon is said to be in the hands of Boko Haram. “I can confirm that the French priest is in the hands of Mujahideen [fighters] from Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad [Boko Haram’s Arabic name], who carried out the operation that was co-ordinated with Ansaru,” an . . . Read More

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