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11, December 2025
Cameroon’s mobile money industry accelerates, topping CFA135.84bn 0
Cameroon’s mobile financial services market is expanding rapidly, according to the 2024 Annual Observatory of the Electronic Communications Market. Services offered by MTN Mobile Money Corporation and Orange Money Cameroon have become a core driver of financial inclusion, giving millions access to a digital wallet even without a traditional bank account. MTN and Orange record […]
11, December 2025
International standards proliferate, reshaping global economy 0
A proliferating set of international standards—covering everything from food labeling to the specifications of 5G cellular networks—is steadily reshaping the global economic order, delivering hefty benefits to the wealthy nations and large multinational companies that set them while leaving many developing countries on the sidelines, according to a new World Bank report. Today, standards are […]
10, December 2025
US set to demand five-years of social media data from all foreign visitors 0
US President Donald Trump’s administration is set to require all foreign visitors to the United States to submit their social media histories from the past five years, according to a notice by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The directive, released on Tuesday will be enforced for all new entrants, including travelers from countries that […]
10, December 2025
Reporters Without Borders names Israel the world’s top killer of journalists for third year 0
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has named Israel the world’s greatest killer of journalists for the third consecutive year, holding it responsible for nearly half of global journalist deaths in 2025, largely in the besieged Gaza Strip. In an annual report on Tuesday, the RSF said that 29 Palestinian reporters were killed by the Israeli military […]
8, December 2025
Nigeria: One hundred abducted schoolchildren released 0
About 100 children who were abducted from a Catholic school in central Nigeria last month have been freed, authorities say. Niger state’s police chief, Adamu Abdullahi Elleman, and Bishop Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, who is in charge of the school as the local leader of the Catholic community, both told the BBC that they had received […]
8, December 2025
Fundong: 2 gov’t soldiers killed in Amba ambush 0
At least two Cameroonian soldiers were killed and several others injured on Friday in an ambush by separatists in the country’s war-torn English-speaking region of Northwest, security sources said. The soldiers were at a security checkpoint in Fundong locality of the region when separatist fighters attacked them, a military official in the region confirmed. “The […]
8, December 2025
UN ‘appalled’ by death in custody of Cameroon opposition figure Anicet Ekane 0
The United Nations said Friday it was “appalled” by the death in custody of Cameroonian opposition figure Anicet Ekane, who had been arrested in late October. The left-wing nationalist politician, who died on Monday, was arrested in Douala on October 24, on the eve of the publication of presidential election results that returned 92-year-old Paul […]
7, December 2025
Benin coup attempt foiled by loyalist troops, interior minister says 0
The government of Benin says it has foiled an attempted coup by members of the West African nation’s armed forces. “The Beninese armed forces and their leadership, true to their oath, remained committed to the republic,” Interior Minister Alassane Seidou said in a televised address. Earlier on Sunday, a group of soldiers made a broadcast […]
4, December 2025
Provisional results show CPDM crime syndicate leads in regional elections 0
The ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) has won the regional elections held last Sunday, according to provisional results from regional supervisory commissions. The preliminary figures released Wednesday indicate that the CPDM captured the majority of the regional council seats contested in 58 divisional headquarters of the country. “This is a wonderful victory and clearly […]
12, December 2025
Unity Palace: Ngoh Ngoh will remain a key figure in the new Biya government 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
President Biya has reportedly made a decision regarding the future of his powerful Secretary General Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh. According to intelligence sources inside the Unity Palace, Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh has been assured by the 92-year-old dictator that he will be reappointed in the next government. In the nation’s capital, discussions are going on to form […]