The return of professional soccer to one of Cameroon’s Anglophone regions reflects a cautious optimism about the future in a place upended by war.

By Joshua McElwee BAMENDA, Cameroon, April 16 (Reuters) - Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants", in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on Thursday days after U.

Pope Leo led a historic peace meeting on April 16 in Cameroon's northwest city of Bamenda, a region marred by years of separatist violence.

Pope Leo XIV arrived in Cameroon on April 15, delivering a forceful appeal for peace to a nation scarred by years of separatist violence, telling the country’s leaders that “there is such a hunger and thirst for justice” as thousands lined the streets of the capital to welcome him.

Pope Leo XIV has led a peace meeting in Cameroon's northwestern city of Bamenda, which is part of a region battered by a separatist violence.

The pope celebrated his first large Mass in Africa, calling out those who "lay their hands on the African continent to exploit and plunder it."

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday criticised the "tyrants" ransacking the world, on a high-security visit to a "bloodstained" region of Cameroon following a war of words with US President Donald

Leo, the first U.S. ​pope, ⁠also decried leaders who used religious language to justify ⁠wars and urged a "decisive change of ⁠course" in a meeting in the biggest city in

By Joshua McElwee and Amindeh Blaise Atabong YAOUNDE, April 15 (Reuters) - Pope Leo on Wednesday urged Cameroon's government to root out corruption and resist "the whims of the rich and powerful", in a forceful speech given in the presence of President Paul Biya,

Pope Leo XIV made a vigorous call for peace on a visit Thursday to a "bloodstained" region of Cameroon that has been gripped by an English-speaking separatist conflict for nearly a decade.