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22, March 2024
Nintcheu and Sisiku Ayuk Tabe Meeting: Biya regime bans opposition coalitions 0
A declaration by Cameroon’s territorial administration minister to make two opposition coalitions illegal is part of a government crackdown on opposition and dissent. On March 12, 2024, the minister, Paul Atanga Nji, said in a statement that the Political Alliance for Change (Alliance politique pour le changement, APC), led by Jean-Michel Nintcheu, and the Political […]
22, March 2024
Football: Former Brazil international Robinho arrested to serve rape sentence 0
Former Brazil international football player Robinho has been arrested to serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape. He was convicted two years ago in Italy for his part in the gang rape of an Albanian woman at a night club in Milan in 2013. Robinho, 40, was arrested at his flat in his home city […]
22, March 2024
Douala Sanitation Day: A mockery of sanitation! 0
When officials of Cameroon’s largest city, Douala, instituted a sanitation day which is supposed to take place every Thursday, many in the city were elated, hoping that such an action would roll back the garbage that lined the city’s streets. But this hope has been short-lived as the sanitation day is being used by alcohol […]
21, March 2024
Anti-extortion campaign: North West mayors commit to free civil registration document issuance 0
At least 13 of the 34 mayors in the North West Region of Cameroon have issued statements emphasizing their commitment to ensuring the free issuance of civil status documents in their respective councils henceforth. They have also expressed their resolve to dismantle “middlemen” networks which often mastermind extortion from those seeking civil registration services. The […]
21, March 2024
Bishops of Yaoundé Ecclesiastical Province discuss Church and the digital world 0
The first ordinary annual session of the Bishops’ Conference of the Ecclesiastical Province of Yaoundé in Cameroon, was held recently. “The Church and the digital world: issues and challenges for evangelization,” was the theme of the plenary. The assembly took place at the Pastoral Centre of Saint Joseph in the town of Kribi, a beach […]
20, March 2024
Spanish court sets €1.1 million bail for footballer Alves as he appeals rape conviction 0
Former Brazil international Dani Alves is to be released from jail pending an appeal against his rape conviction in a one-million-euro bail agreement denounced by the victim’s lawyer as “justice for the rich”. The ruling came a day after his lawyer requested the 40-year-old’s release on grounds he had already served a quarter of his […]
20, March 2024
Leo Varadkar: I am no longer best man to be Irish PM 0
Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar will step down as party leader immediately and will resign as taoiseach as soon as his Fine Gael successor is selected. Announcing his resignation, Mr Varadkar described leading his country as “the most fulfilling time of my life”. He said he was stepping down for “personal and political” reasons and […]
19, March 2024
Deposing the Beti-Bulu Monarch after 42 years in power 0
Paul Biya, the tribal chief passing for a head of state, has faced allegations of corruption and authoritarianism during his long tenure. Critics have accused his Beti-Bulu-Ewondo government of widespread corruption, human rights abuses and political repression. And he remains the master at curbing press freedoms. Is Biya taking the last kicks of a dying […]
19, March 2024
Biya regime says Ambazonia fighters have killed 84 soldiers since Sept. 2017 0
Armed separatists in Southern Cameroons have killed over 80 soldiers and police since their insurgency began in September last year, the government said in a report on Wednesday that suggests the conflict is intensifying. What began in late 2016 as a peaceful movement calling for greater representation of the mostly French-speaking country’s Anglophone minority morphed […]
22, March 2024
CPDM Crime Syndicate elects Cavaye Yeguie Djibril as National Assembly speaker 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, a senior member of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, Cameroon’s ruling party, was reelected the country’s House Speaker of National Assembly Friday. During an elective plenary sitting of the House in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, Cavaye was reelected with 143 votes out of 156 votes, and there were 13 void votes. […]