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27, February 2025
Football: the rise and rise of Etienne Eto’o’ in La Liga 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Sports
Carrying the weight of his father’s legendary name, Etienne Eto’o is carving out his own path at Rayo Vallecano. The 22-year-old striker, son of Cameroonian icon Samuel Eto’o, has experienced a turbulent early career with stints at Mallorca, Oviedo, Vitoria Guimarães U23, and lower-division clubs Poblense and Unión Collado. However, his move to Rayo Vallecano’s […]
27, February 2025
Southern Cameroons: football match-fixing scandal rocks Victoria United 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Sports
The president of Limbe- based Victoria United club, Valentin Nkwain, is accused of kidnapping and torturing his team’s goalkeeper, Eric Parfait Djomeni Fokam , just 19 years old, for three days. The goalkeeper is also a player for the Cameroon U-20 national team and, according to the media; everything happened after the president accused him […]
27, February 2025
Cameroon is currently not high on the US foreign policy agenda—but it should be 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
The country, at the crossroads of Central and West Africa, faces uncertainty across political, social, economic, and security environments. This is happening at a time when the United States’ global competitors are opportunistically seeking engagement in Cameroon and the region, boxing out the United States as it looks to protect its interests there. Paul Biya, […]
25, February 2025
Jose Mourinho in Turkey: From the Special One to the Crying One 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, Sports
Jose Mourinho’s tenure at any club is guaranteed to be colourful, but his eight-month reign as Fenerbahce manager is turning caustic. The 62-year-old Portuguese has repeatedly revisited his favourite subject of refereeing – an issue Turkish football has struggled with of late – which led to him being accused of racism on Monday night. BBC […]
25, February 2025
How Biya and Archbishop Nkea protected the sanctity of the family in Cameroon 0
by soter • Cameroon, Editorial, Headline News, Religion
Biya did not sign any Anti-Homosexuality Bill into law and he also did not give homosexuality a life sentence. But the “old fox” was actively involved in many behind-the-scenes actions with powerful religious voices including Archbishop Andrew Nkea to prevent former US President Joe Biden from making numerous strides to uplift the LGBTQ community deep […]
25, February 2025
Gold toilet worth £4.8m ‘stolen in five minutes’ 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, News
Thieves stole a £4.8m solid gold toilet from Blenheim Palace in an “audacious raid” which took just five minutes, a court has heard. The toilet was plumbed in and fully functioning as part of an art exhibition at the Oxfordshire stately home in September 2019. Michael Jones, 39, from Divinity Road, Oxford denies a charge […]
25, February 2025
Rev Father Nixon Mullah, S.S.J., dies at 51 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Religion
A memorial Mass for Josephite Father Nixon Mullah will be offered Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. at St. Luke in Washington, D.C. Father Mullah, who earned a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, died Feb. 18 in his native Cameroon following a battle with cancer that lasted several […]
24, February 2025
7,000+ killed in eastern DR Congo since January 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, News
More than 7,000 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo since January, Prime Minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka said on Monday. Armed members of the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group, who have seized large swathes of the mineral-rich eastern DRC, including the main eastern cities of […]
24, February 2025
2024 Cameroon Ballon d’Or: Nominees Set for Feb. 28 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Sports
The 2024 Cameroon Ballon d’Or ceremony will take place on February 28 in Yaoundé, with the list of eight nominees revealed over the weekend. John Bosco Nchindo is widely seen as the favorite. The prolific striker was named best player of last season’s playoffs with Yong Sports Academy (YOSA) of Bamenda, which came close to […]
1, March 2025
Southern Cameroons Crisis: 9 Amba fighters surrender in Bali 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
Nine Ambazonia fighters, including a commander, have surrendered to troops loyal to the regime in Yaoundé in the Northwest region, local officials said on Saturday. The fighters turned themselves in to government officials in the town of Bali. On Friday, they were presented to the public at a ceremony attended by local authorities, soldiers and […]