24, December 2017
2 survivors after military plane crashes in Garoua 0
A Cameroon military plane that had on board two colonels returning from an observation mission in the National Park in Benoue has crashed. The incident occurred on Saturday, December 23, 2017 at Ngong some fifty kilometres from Garoua the chief city in the North region.
A sister publication, Cameroon Info.Net quoted military sources within the Garoua Air Base 301 that the Tetras-type ULM aircraft, registered TJ-XDA, crashed while on a mission in support of the 31st Mechanized Infantry Division (BRIM).
The plane was carrying two senior Cameroon military officials namely Colonel Tchouasseu Serge (deputy commander of Garoua Air Base 301) and Colonel Mbezele Dieudonné. The two valiant officers came out safe and sound. Cameroon Concord News was reliably informed that an engine stopped in full flight prompting the two officers to force an emergency landing.
Returning from a reconnaissance mission against Boko Haram, a Cameroonian army helicopter crashed on the 22nd of January 2017 at Bogo, Diamarét Division. Four Cameroonian officers including Brigadier General Jacob Kodji, Commander of the Joint Military Region No. 4, were killed in the crash.
By Sama Ernest
25, December 2017
Indomitable Lions: Ambroise Oyongo agrees to Montpellier switch 0
Fit-again Cameroon international defender Ambroise Oyongo has agreed a four-year deal to join 2012 French champions Montpellier.
The 26-year-old, whose contract with MLS club Montreal Impact ends on 31 December, ruptured a tendon in June.
He becomes the club’s first major winter signing, according to club president Laurent Nicollin.
“It’s done, it’s signed,” Nicollin told French publication ‘Midi Libre,’
“He’s an endearing boy, who has not played since June and is only making a big return from his injury.
“I hope it’s going to be a nice surprise, he’s here to help us from this season, but most importantly to be starting from the next.”
It will be Oyongo’s first professional club in Europe in a career which began at Coton Sport in his native Cameroon, where he won three league titles between 2010 and 2014.
He had a brief spell with Major League Soccer (MLS) club New York Red Bulls in 2014, before switching to Montreal Impact in January 2015.
Oyongo scored three goals and provided six assists in 72 games for the MLS Eastern Conference outfit.
Capped 28 times by Cameroon scoring twice, Oyongo played all six games as the Indomitable Lions won their fifth African Cup of Nations title in Gabon early this year.
Source: BBC