Fifa’s Video Assistant Referee (VAR) claimed the spotlight for all the wrong reasons at the Confederations Cup in Russia yesterday when the on-field official’s decision resulted in the wrong man getting sent off before the players intervened in Germany’s 3-1 win over Cameroon last night.

Germany 3, Cameroon 1: Kerem Demirbay and Timo Werner both scored their first senior international goals as Germany beat 10-man Cameroon 3-1 to book their place in the Confederations Cup semi-finals.

A suicide bomber has killed a young student and a woman in Cameroon.

At least 53 people have died after a train in Cameroon overloaded with passengers derailed along the route that links the country's two major cities.

Four suicide bombers have attacked a town in Cameroon's Far North region near the border with Nigeria, killing at least 28 people and wounding 65 others, officials said.

At least 12 people have been killed after two female suicide bombers attacked a mosque in Cameroon.

Two female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a town in north Cameroon, killing at least five people and injuring 12 others.

Cameroon has expelled more than 3,000 Nigerians as part of the fight against Nigeria’s Islamic extremists who have launched attacks across borders, officials said.

A suicide bombing in Cameroon blamed on Boko Haram extremists has killed at least 10 people.