2020 in Cameroon

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Decades:	2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2020 List of years in Cameroon

Incumbents

• President: Paul Biya
• Prime Minister: Joseph Ngute

Events

• February 9 – 2020 Cameroonian parliamentary election and 2020 Cameroonian municipal elections ^[1]
• February 14 – Anglophone Crisis: Ngarbuh massacre ^[2]
• August 2 – Boko Haram insurgency: Nguetchewe attack^{[ citation needed ]}
• October 24 - Anglophone Crisis: Kumba school massacre
• December 27 – Thirty-seven are killed and 18 are injured in a bus crash in Nemale. ^[3]

Deaths

• April 12 – Samuel Wembé ^{[4] [5]}
• July 5 – Samuel Wazizi, journalist (CMTV); died while in government retention. ^[6]
• July 10 – Jacob Plange-Rhule, doctor, head of district hospital in Yaounde; COVID-19 ^[7]

References

1. Cameroun - Législatives et municipales 2020: Selon ELECAM, aucun incident majeur «de nature à troubler le déroulement du scrutin» n'a été signalé dans le pays Cameroon-Info, 10 February 2020
2. Exclusive: Testimonies From Ngarbuh About How Some Survivors Cheated Death By Hair’s Breadth, Plus Names of Victims, Survivors, Cameroon News Agency, Feb 19, 2020. Accessed Feb 19, 2020.
3. "At least 37 dead in Cameroon bus crash". aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera English. December 27, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
4. "Senatoriales 2013 - Ouest: Chemin de croix pour les milliardaires - Région du Sud: Jeunes loups contre barons". Cameroon-Info.net (in French). 11 March 2013. Archived from the original on 14 March 2013.
5. Journal de l'Afrique en expansion (in French). Gideppe. 2003.
6. "Cameroonian journalist dies in government detention". www.aljazeera.com. Al Jazeera English. August 5, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
7. "Africa's top virus deaths: Cameroon women's football medic dies". Africanews. 13 July 2020. Retrieved February 27, 2021.