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16, January 2020
French Cameroun: Student Chops off classmate’s finger in GBHS Obala 0
Mbappe Arnold Alexandre, Student of Government Bilingual High School, GBHS, Obala in the outskirts of Yaounde, is currently receiving emergency medical attention at the Obala District Hospital after his finger was chopped off by his classmate with the aid of a machete. The incident happened Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at the campus of “Lycée Bilingue […]
16, January 2020
Russia: How President Putin is preparing to rule for ever 0
WHAT IS VLADIMIR PUTIN playing at? On January 15th Russia’s president took Kremlin-watchers by surprise. In his state-of-the-union speech, he announced a radical overhaul of the Russian constitution and a referendum on its proposed (still very unclear) terms. This bombshell was immediately followed by another. The prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, resigned along with the entire […]
16, January 2020
US and China sign ‘phase one’ trade deal, ending dramatic 18-month tit-for-tat 0
The United States and China signed an initial trade deal on Wednesday that will roll back some tariffs and boost Chinese purchases of U.S. products, defusing an 18-month row between the world’s two largest economies but leaving a number of sore spots unresolved. Beijing and Washington touted the “Phase 1” agreement as a step forward […]
16, January 2020
US House delivers Trump impeachment articles to Senate 0
Democrats in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday unveiled a seven-member team of ‘impeachment managers’ to prosecute President Donald Trump. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signed the articles of impeachment, the managers made a landmark promenade to deliver the papers to the Senate. House lawmakers on Wednesday voted 228 to 193 to give the […]
15, January 2020
Tower Gets More Time for Cameroon Drilling 0
Tower Resources has been given more time to explore at the Thali license in Cameroon. Tower said Wednesday that the country’s authorities had granted it a one-year extension to the initial period of the exploration phase of the Thali PSC as requested by Tower. AIM-listed Tower further said that it has spent the last couple […]
15, January 2020
Kuwait extends KD 5 million loan to Cameroon 0
The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) sealed a loan agreement worth KD 5 million (around $17 million) to Cameroon yesterday. KFAED’s Deputy Director-General Nedhal Al-Olayan and Cameroonian Minister of Economic Alamine Ousmane Mey signed the agreement. The deal was signed in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé, and the loan will be used in […]
15, January 2020
Yaounde Clears Security Checks after Truckers Protests 0
Cameroon has bowed to pressure from truckers and is dismantling illegal roadblocks and check points from the country’s port city of Douala to the Chadian capital of N’Djamena. For more than a week, truckers refused to drive the route because of extortion at the checkpoints. Drivers have resumed full activity now that officials are listening […]
15, January 2020
African Bar Association weighs in on the Ambazonia Crisis 0
The President of the African Bar Association, AFBA, Hannibal Uwaifo, has, in a correspondence to the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Boris Johnson, suggested that an imposed solution to the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, either through conquest or from a third party, will only mean more wars. The AFBA President, thus, suggested a United Nations […]
15, January 2020
French Cameroun surrogate insists elections must hold in Southern Cameroons 0
Barely 25 days to the February 9 Legislative and Municipal elections, the Board Chair of Elections Cameroon, ELECAM, Enow Abrams Egbe, says almost all the materials required for the polls are in place. The ELECAM boss was speaking in Yaoundé Friday, January 10, during a working visit to the National Printing Press, the Military Air […]
16, January 2020
The US and the UK are the only close allies of Cameroon to have voiced public concern regarding the ongoing situation in Ambazonia 0
by soter • Editorial, Headline News
Cameroon, a country previously known for its stability, faced violence and serious human rights abuses in 2018. The country endured abusive military operations against a secessionist insurgency in two Anglophone regions, attacks by the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram, in the Far North, and a worsening humanitarian crisis. President Paul Biya, 85, won a seventh […]