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12, October 2023
Biya regime warns of heavy rains, high winds 0
Transport Minister Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe warned on Wednesday that Cameroon will experience heavy rains, sometimes followed by violent winds, throughout October and November. Six regions, including the Far North, North, Adamawa, Northwest, West, and East, will be affected. The rains will be in excess relative to the climatology of the regions, Bibehe said […]
12, October 2023
Death in Kondengui of Anglophone priest, a stain on Yaounde’s rights record 0
Rev. Father Andrew Ambezieh was incarcerated since 2017 at the Kondengui Maximum Security Prison in Yaoundé on fabricated terrorism charges. He was sentenced in 2018 to 12 years in prison and reportedly granted bail in 2019 but was never released until his passing. The Roman Catholic cleric who hailed from Tezie Ngie in Momo faced […]
12, October 2023
Gabon: Wife of deposed president Ali Bongo jailed 0
The wife of Gabon’s deposed president Ali Bongo Ondimba, under house arrest since a coup in the central African country in late August, has been jailed, her lawyer said on Thursday. Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin, suspected of allegedly embezzling public funds, was jailed late on Wednesday, her lawyer Francois Zimeray told AFP, condemning the “arbitrary… […]
12, October 2023
Attack on Israel: Netanyahu says every Hamas member is a dead man 0
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said every Hamas member was “a dead man” after the first meeting of his country’s emergency government. Alongside him, opposition figure Benny Gantz said it was “a time for war”. But US President Joe Biden said he had spoken to Mr Netanyahu and made it clear that Israel must “operate […]
11, October 2023
Biya-Putin Connection: Cameroon-flagged dark tanker adrift off Indonesia 0
A 26-year-old oil tanker, part of the shadow fleet hauling Russian crude, is currently adrift in the Indian Ocean. As first reported by Bloomberg, the 106,547 dwt aframax tanker Turba is located some 300 km west of Aceh, Indonesia, and is signalling that it is not under command – meaning it cannot manoeuvre on its […]
11, October 2023
Yaounde-Mbankolo Disaster: Minister Gregoire Owona is to blame 0
The Yaoundé floods disaster which has already killed more than 20 people and rendered hundreds of Cameroonians homeless is clearly being blamed on Gregoire Owona, a government minister in the Biya regime who has a massive illegal fish pond in the neighborhood. On the fateful night of the accident, heavy rains in Yaoundé breached the […]
11, October 2023
Ambazonia Interim Gov’t says Yaoundé will fail to restore its lost power 0
The Vice President of the Ambazonia Interim Government has expressed deep concern over the latest onslaught on Southern Cameroons villages, calling on the international community to take immediate action to stop the occupying French Cameroun regime’s reckless crimes. Dabney Yerima made the remarks on Monday, as he strongly condemned the barbaric raid on villages in […]
10, October 2023
Biya regime says 4 Amba fighters killed in Kendem village 0
At least four separatist fighters have been killed in a military operation in Cameroon’s English-speaking region of Southwest, the army said Saturday. The operation took place late Friday in Kendem village in Manyu Division. Government troops ambushed the fighters who were in their hideout in a cocoa farm, killing four of them and seizing weapons […]
10, October 2023
Death toll from floods in Mbankolo reaches 27 0
At least 27 people were killed and more than 50 were injured in floods set off by heavy rains in Cameroon’s capital, authorities said Monday as rescuers intensified the search for those missing following the deluge the previous day. The rains unleashed floodwaters in the district of Yaounde 2 of the country’s capital on Sunday, […]
12, October 2023
Africa Cup of Nations: Hosts Ivory Coast to face Nigeria in group 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, Sports
Hosts Ivory Coast were joined in Group A by Nigeria in the draw for the Africa Cup of Nations in Abidjan on Thursday. Fast-improving Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, who have qualified for a fourth straight edition, complete the mini-league. Other heavyweight pairings included defending champions Senegal with five-time winners Cameroon, while Africa’s first World Cup […]