The World Bank Group, in partnership with multilateral development banks, development finance institutions and key partners, today launched Water Forward, a global platform to help improve water security for 1 billion people by 2030. The platform will align policy reforms, financing, and partnerships to expand reliable water services and strengthen systems against droughts and floods—essential […]
Pope Leo XIV is continuing his official visit to Cameroon after arriving in Yaounde on April 15, 2026, as part of an African tour that began in Algeria. He is expected in Douala on Friday, April 17. The visit has prompted extensive security and logistical measures, particularly affecting traffic. In a radio statement issued on […]
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Cameroon on Wednesday where he delivered a masterclass on wielding authority legitimately to President Paul Biya, who consolidated his four-decade grip on power with a contested election last year that gave him an eighth term in office. The Vatican had said fighting corruption in the mineral-rich central African country would […]
Addressing authorities, representatives of civil society and members of the diplomatic corps at the Presidential Palace in Yaoundé, shortly after his arrival in Cameroon on Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV delivered an appeal for peace, justice and renewed commitment to the common good, urging Cameroonians to draw on their rich diversity as a source of unity […]
Anglophone Roman Catholic Bishops wrote a brilliant letter to the 93-year-old butcher in Yaoundé and suggested possible ways of ending the crisis in Southern Cameroons. Biya spurned disdainfully the Bishops. A francophone Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Bafia was murdered and his body dumped inside a river. Till this day, the Biya regime […]
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