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3, October 2023
Time to resolve Southern Cameroons persistent yet forgotten crisis 0
Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict undermines national unity and is arguably the most damaging of the country’s multiple crises. It sparked demands for secession and led to separatists proclaiming a new state of Ambazonia in the country’s English-speaking North West and South West regions on 1 October 2017. The regions are home to about 20% of the […]
2, October 2023
Ambazonians march in Ground Zero on anniversary of independence 0
Hundreds of Southern Cameroonians marched in the rural areas to mark the anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia by President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe. Carrying pro-independence flags and banners, the Southern Cameroonians chanted anti-French Cameroun slogans in Bui, Manyu, Ndian, Menchum, Fako and Mezam County. Among the Ambazonia celebrants […]
2, October 2023
Mali redeploys troops to rebel stronghold 0
The Malian army began redeploying troops on Monday towards the northern rebel stronghold of Kidal, two security officials said, amid a resumption of hostilities in the region. “As part of the reorganisation of our arrangements in the north, we have begun the redeployment of our forces in the northeastern region of Kidal,” a Mali military […]
2, October 2023
Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines 0
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize. The technology was experimental before the pandemic, but has now been given to millions of people around the world […]
1, October 2023
Bishop Bibi honored for “exceptional” leadership skills 0
Bishop Michael Miabesue Bibi of the Catholic Diocese of Buea in Cameroon has been honored by the country’s NewsWatch Newspaper for his “exceptional skills” in leading the people of God and managing the property of the Cameroonian Episcopal See. In a statement announcing the award, NewsWatch Editor-in-Chief, Ndi Eugene Ndi, said the Bishop who faced […]
1, October 2023
CPDM Crime Syndicate: BEAC governor calls for vigilance against counterfeit banknotes 0
Only a few months after their release, forgers have already found a way to make the counterfeit versions of the new range of banknotes put into circulation on December 15, 2022. Pending the dismantling of the counterfeiting network, Beac Governor Abbas Mahamat Tolli (pictured) called on the population to be more vigilant when handling these […]
1, October 2023
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Gendarmerie commander killed in Awing 0
A Francophone commander of Cameroon’s National Gendarmerie has been killed in the Northern Zone, a source in the governor’s office told Cameroon Concord News. Commander Betene Manga was in charge of anti Ambazonia operations at the gendarmerie post in Awing. He was killed when Southern Cameroons restoration forces raided the Awing gendarmerie post on Thursday. […]
29, September 2023
Old CPDM Tricks: Eto’o investigated by police over match-fixing allegations 0
Police in Cameroon have opened an investigation into claims that Samuel Eto’o was part of a match-fixing scandal. The former Barcelona striker, who has been president of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) since December 2021, was accused of helping to fix matches in Cameroon’s second tier in July after a recording of him speaking to […]
29, September 2023
Gabon charges ousted president’s wife with ‘money laundering’ 0
The wife of Gabon’s ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba has been charged with “money laundering” and other offences, the public prosecutor said Friday, a month after a coup toppled her husband. Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin, who is Franco-Gabonese, and one of the couple’s sons have been accused by the coup leader of having pulled the […]
3, October 2023
Franck Biya, in the shadow of his corrupt and ailing father 0
by soter • Breaking News, Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
He is not officially a candidate for anything and has never publicly leaked the slightest ambition. But her slender silhouette is increasingly visible in official meetings, on social networks and the images distilled by the Cameroonian presidency. A new presence which inevitably raises questions in a country where discussions around the succession of the “captain” […]