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6, March 2024
Champions League: Haaland scores as Man City cruised past Copenhagen 0
Manchester City enjoyed the perfect warm-up for Sunday’s crucial Premier League trip to Liverpool as they cruised past Copenhagen to reach the Champions League quarter-finals for a sixth successive season. Ahead by two goals from the first leg in Copenhagen three weeks ago, any lingering hopes of a shock were ended within nine minutes as […]
6, March 2024
Francis Ngannou clashes with Tyson Fury at Anthony Joshua news conference 0
Ex-UFC champion Francis Ngannou clashed with Tyson Fury and says he is “just getting started” in boxing before his heavyweight fight with Anthony Joshua. Ngannou faces Joshua in Saudi Arabia on Friday but opted to do his best verbal sparring with former opponent Fury at Wednesday’s news conference. Joshua took a back seat as Fury […]
6, March 2024
Senegal sets March 24 as new date for delayed presidential election 0
The Senegalese government has set March 24 as the new date for the country’s delayed presidential election, according to an official statement issued Wednesday after a meeting of the Council of Ministers. President Macky Sall who faces term limits at the end of his second period in office, said in early February that he was […]
6, March 2024
Gulf of Aden: Two killed in Houthi missile attack on cargo ship 0
Two crew members have been killed in a Houthi missile strike on a cargo ship off southern Yemen, US officials say – the first deaths the group’s attacks on merchant vessels have caused. The Barbados-flagged True Confidence had been abandoned and was drifting with a fire on board, managers said. It was hit in the […]
6, March 2024
The Beti-Bulu veil of falsehoods in the nation’s capital Yaoundé 0
Lies, fraud, deception and falsehoods have woven an intricate web within the fabric of the Francophone dominated Cameroon political society, with its so-called head of state, Paul Biya and his Beti-Bulu kinsmen spearheading a culture of shameless lying among political, judicial, and CPDM government officials. To understand the roots of this pervasive dishonesty and its […]
5, March 2024
Bayern Munich in quarter-finals of the Champions League 0
Harry Kane scored two to help Bayern Munich overturn a first-leg deficit against Lazio and advance to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Trailing 1-0 from the first leg in Rome, Bayern looked set for a frustrating night until Kane’s header levelled the scores on aggregate. Long-serving Thomas Muller doubled the lead on the night […]
5, March 2024
Boxing: Ngannou ready to face Joshua 0
It was one of the most arresting spectacles in boxing for some time: Francis Ngannou dancing a jig of pleasure while leaning over a floored and obviously dazed Tyson Fury. For boxing purists, disaster was brewing. Was a UFC fighter, in his very first boxing match, about to knock out a reigning world heavyweight champion? […]
5, March 2024
FECAFOOTgate: Samuel Eto’o facing a legal storm 0
During his address to the youth on February 11, 2024, the Head of State, Paul Biya, instructed the government to undertake a profound reform of football administration in Cameroon. “I understand the importance you place on football. The state, in our difficult context, makes significant financial sacrifices in this regard. It is therefore entitled to […]
5, March 2024
US Supreme Court rules Colorado cannot ban Trump from presidential ballot 0
The US Supreme Court has struck down efforts by individual states to disqualify Donald Trump from running for president using an anti-insurrection constitutional clause. The unanimous ruling is specific to Colorado, but it also overrides challenges brought in other states. Colorado had barred Mr Trump from its Republican primary, arguing he incited the 2021 Capitol […]
7, March 2024
Cameroon cocoa hits record prices amid global demand surge 0
by soter • Africa, Business, Headline News
During a collective cocoa sale on March 5, 2024, in Abong-Mbang, a key cocoa-producing area in Eastern Cameroon, producer prices per kilogram soared to a new record of CFA4,225, marking the highest rate both nationally and globally. Following this milestone, on March 6, 2024, Cameroon’s Minister of Trade, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, issued an official […]