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7, September 2017
Battle of the Presidents: Biya expected to take on the Southern Cameroons leader in Far North visit 0
President Biya is planning a campaign visit to the Far North region in which he is expected to attack the interim leader of the Southern Cameroons Governing Council, Cameroon Concord News has learned from reliable sources in Yaounde. Our informants have also hinted that Etoudi intends to package the tour to appear as if the […]
7, September 2017
FIFA/CAF joint mission in La Republique 0
Officials of the world football governing body, FIFA and the Confederation of African Football, CAF are in La Republique du Cameroun. Their main mission is to put in place a Normalisation Committee to replace the former FECAFOOT Executive after the elections were declared null. According to a brief programme published, the officials entered the French […]
7, September 2017
Maroua: Boko Haram kills 3 in dawn ambush 0
Three people were killed in an attack attributed to Boko Haram last night in the small border town of Dzaba, in the Mayo Moskota Division in the Far North region of La Republique du Cameroun. Security officials operating within the area say 9 people including women and children are missing. According to another community source, […]
6, September 2017
Boko Haram Crisis: Cholera spreading in Nigeria 0
Cholera is spreading fast through camps housing people displaced by Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Most deaths were recorded in Muna Garage camp on the outskirts of state capital Maiduguri, the epicenter of the extremist insurgency that has also destabilized neighboring Cameroon, Chad and Niger. A […]
6, September 2017
US ambassador to Cameroon is leaving in the middle of the Anglophone Crisis 0
French Cameroun dictator, Paul BIYA has granted a farewell audience to the outgoing U.S. Ambassador – Michael Stephen Hoza. Both personalities met at the Unity Palace on Wednesday 6 September 2017. Speaking to reporters after the audience, Ambassador Stephen Hoza emphasised that the U.S. will prolong its partnership with Cameroon – “a country with a […]
6, September 2017
Crop-eating army worm hits Northern Cameroon, Worsening Food Crisis 0
Crop-eating fall army worms have attacked nearly 37,000 hectares of maize in northern Cameroon, officials said on Wednesday, accentuating an already dire humanitarian crisis provoked by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram’s cross-border insurgency. More than two dozen African nations have reported outbreaks of the invasive Central American variety of the pest, which is harder […]
6, September 2017
US: Thousands protest against rescinding ‘dreamer’ immigration program 0
Mass protests have been held in cities across the United States after President Donald Trump canceled the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that protected young immigrants. The DACA program allowed nearly 800,000 young men and women, often called “dreamers”, who had entered the country as illegal immigrants, to stay in the US. After […]
6, September 2017
President Putin says Trump is not my bride, and I’m not his groom 0
Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused to comment on domestic American politics and to criticize his US counterpart, taking a jab at Donald Trump by saying “He is not my bride, and I’m not his groom.” Putin made the remarks at a news conference on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in China on Tuesday, […]
5, September 2017
Anglophone Crisis: Bui SDO’s office set on fire by protesters 0
Southern Cameroons protesters have set fire on an administrative building in Kumbo, the chief town in the Bui County. Cameroon Concord News learnt that the Senior Divisional Officer for Bui, Mooh Simon Émile was seriously wounded. According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Defense (MINDEF) dated 4 September 2017, a gendarme opened fire […]
7, September 2017
Al Jazeera: Linguistic tensions boil over in Cameroon 0
by soter • Education, Headline News, Life
Thousands of students, shopkeepers and staff in Cameroon have protested this week against what they claim is the marginalisation of the country’s English-speaking minority population. The so-called ghost-town protests in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon, including the city of Bamenda in the north and the town of Buea in the southwest, which led to the […]