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24, January 2022
Football: Ranieri sacked as Watford manager after just 14 games 0
Watford manager Claudio Ranieri was sacked on Monday after only 14 games in charge of the Premier League strugglers. Ranieri was hired in October to replace Xisco Munoz after the Spaniard’s dismissal. But the 70-year-old Italian was unable to improve Watford’s fortunes, with the Hornets taking just seven points during his brief reign. Just 112 […]
24, January 2022
Africa Cup of Nations: Gambia continue giant-killing spree with 1-0 victory over Guinea 0
Musa Barrow scored a 71st-minute winner as Gambia continued their giant killing spree at the Africa Cup of Nations by pulling off an upset 1-0 win over Guinea in Bafoussam on Monday to advance to the quarter-finals. Striker Barrow, one of the outstanding performers at the tournament, was set up by a defence-splitting pass from […]
24, January 2022
Burkina Faso soldiers announce military takeover, Kaboré ‘suspended’ 0
Burkina Faso’s army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, suspended the country’s constitution, dissolved government and closed the national borders. The announcement followed hours of confusion after gunfire erupted at army camps on Sunday night. Kaboré has not been seen since Sunday and his whereabouts remain unknown. The military takeover […]
24, January 2022
Consortium of CPDM Crime Syndicates: More than a hundred Ambazonia detainees and MRC opposition figures languishing in jail 0
More than a hundred people from Cameroon’s Anglophone regions and its main political opposition party, arrested over the past five years for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, are still languishing in jail, where some have been subjected to torture and other ill-treatment, Amnesty International said today as it launches a new […]
24, January 2022
Mutinying soldiers detain Burkina Faso President Kabore 0
Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been detained, sources told FRANCE 24 on Monday, following heavy gunfire around his residence on Sunday night in the capital Ouagadougou. Shots were heard late Sunday near Kabore’s home after soldiers staged mutinies at several barracks to demand the sacking of the country’s military top brass and […]
24, January 2022
Death toll in massive Yaoundé Night Club fire rises to 17 0
A fire erupted at a popular nightclub in the Cameroon capital of Yaounde, setting off explosions that killed at least 17 people and seriously injured seven others, government officials said Sunday. The tragedy comes as the central African country hosts thousands of soccer players, fans and officials from across the continent for the month-long African […]
23, January 2022
Yaoundé: Jacques Fame Ndongo is losing sleep 0
When he went seeking glory at the VIP lounge of the Olembe Stadium, an architectural masterpiece, Jacques Fame Ndongo, Cameroon’s higher education minister, did not know he was stirring a hornet’s nest. Fame Ndongo has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons on many occasions and he knows he is not the most […]
23, January 2022
Tunisia shock Nigeria in Africa Cup of Nations 0
Veteran Youssef Msakni scored to give previously unimpressive Tunisia a shock 1-0 triumph over 10-man Nigeria in Garoua on Sunday in an Africa Cup of Nations last-16 match. The north Africans now face Burkina Faso, who eliminated Gabon after a penalty shootout, in the quarter-finals of the flagship African tournament next Saturday. Nigeria had a […]
23, January 2022
Death toll in Yaoundé Night Club fire jumps to 16 0
Cameroon’s government said Sunday that 16 people were killed in a fire caused by fireworks in a nightclub in the capital Yaounde, the tragedy occurring as the nation hosts the Africa Cup of Nations football tournament. “The initial report shows 16 dead and eight seriously injured” after the “accidental fire” broke out Saturday night, the […]
24, January 2022
Africa Cup of Nations: Indomitable Lions labour to beat Comoros deprived of goalkeeper 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Sports
Hosts Cameroon are through to the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations but only after labouring to a 2-1 win over a Comoros side who were forced to start an outfield player in goal and played most of the game with 10 men. The Comoros started with left-back Chaker Alhadhur between the posts in […]