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26, March 2024
Yaoundé: Martinez Zogo trial opened, adjourned 0
The trial for the killing of a popular Cameroonian journalist opened on Monday with 17 people in the dock, including an ex-secret service chief, but was immediately adjourned until April 15. The badly-mutilated body of reporter Arsene Salomon Mbani Zogo, known as “Martinez”, was found a few days after he was abducted in front of […]
26, March 2024
CPDM supporters want Cameroon’s four-decade President, 91, to run again 0
Supporters are urging the world’s oldest leader, 91-year-old Cameroonian President Paul Biya, to run for office in the 2025 presidential election, potentially extending his more than four-decade rule. They say Biya is the only one who can bring peace and development to the country, but the opposition says Biya must leave office after running Cameroon […]
25, March 2024
Biya’s Replacement: A Coup d’Etat is cheaper 0
As usual, there is news all over Cameroon on the possible replacement of Paul Biya, the country’s longest serving president in 2025. Mr. Biya has misruled the country for 42 years and he is slowly but surely yielding to the passage of time. Mr. Biya, who was considered by many in 1982 as a better […]
25, March 2024
Senegal’s ruling coalition presidential hopeful recognises opposition Faye’s victory 0
Senegal’s governing coalition candidate Amadou Ba on Monday recognised a win by anti-establishment candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye in the first-round of presidential elections and offered his congratulations, a statement said “Considering the trends of the presidential election results and awaiting the official declaration, I congratulate the president Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye on his victory in […]
25, March 2024
Race For Etoudi: Cameroon Concord Editorial Chair endorses Professor Titus Edzoa 0
It is becoming clear that there is a massive power vacuum in Cameroon as the country’s ailing leaders are incapable of making sound economic and political decisions which can help steer the country out of the mess for which the country is now noted. Though the country’s Territorial Administration Minister, Paul Atanga Nji, has, out […]
25, March 2024
North Korea says Japan’s PM Kishida has requested summit with Kim Jong Un 0
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister said Monday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has requested a summit with her brother, adding a meeting was unlikely without a policy shift by Tokyo. Relations between the two countries are historically strained, including by a long-running kidnapping dispute and North Korea’s banned weapons programmes, but […]
24, March 2024
“2025 will be a critical year in Cameroon” 0
2025 will be a critical year in Cameroon as parliamentary and presidential elections will be held and the presidential elections in particular will either make or break the country which has been in the spotlight for decades for all the wrong reasons. As Cameroon’s political parties start strategizing on how to edge out the unpopular […]
23, March 2024
Southern Cameroons Crisis: second deputy mayor of Babessi Council shot dead 0
Ambazonia fighters have reportedly killed a prominent mayor in the Northwest region on Saturday morning, according to local police. Solomon Nkwato, the second deputy mayor of Babessi Council of Ngoketunjia Division in the region, was shot dead as he was about to leave his home, police said without elaborating. Local media reported that the mayor […]
23, March 2024
US: Cameroonian National sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud 0
U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Njuh Valentine Fombe, a/k/a “Valentine”, age 37, a Cameroonian citizen, formerly residing in Beltsville, Maryland, today to 12 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracies to commit wire fraud and money laundering, and for aggravated identity theft, in connection with a business […]
26, March 2024
Yaoundé: Cabinet Reshuffle is in the Offing! 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
As news of a coup d’état in Cameroon spreads across the country, a source at the Unity Palace has informed the Cameroon Concord News Group that a cabinet reshuffle is on the horizon as members of the president’s inner circle start strategizing on how to grant the ailing and collapsing Biya a massive victory in […]