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17, May 2020
Number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 3,000 in Cameroon 0
The total number COVID-19 cases registered in Cameroon has surpassed 3,000, according to statistics updated Saturday by World Health Organization (WHO). According to WHO, 3,047 cases have been detected in Cameroon, including 139 deaths. The current fatality rate is about 4.56 percent, higher than the fatality rate in Africa as a whole. The continuous rise […]
17, May 2020
Manyu CPDM barons in Mamfe, Egbekaw helped gun men kill Mayor Ojong 0
The mayor of Mamfe, Presley Ojong was heading to his village Eshobi some few miles from the chief town in the Manyu County. Two heavily armed soldiers from the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) provided security for him en route to Eshobi. They crossed the Satom Bridge and took the main road destined for Eshobi. The […]
17, May 2020
Combating coronavirus in Ambazonia: Restoration Forces issuing resident permits to locals in Manyu 0
As the Coronavirus spreads across the world and threatens the global economy, many are concerned about their future and this fear has caused many communities to take urgent actions to keep the virus at bay. In Cameroon, most confirmed cases of the virus are concentrated in the country’s two major cities – Douala and Yaoundé […]
16, May 2020
Biya suffers ‘minor stroke’ 0
Top medics from the CNPS hospital in Yaoundé were helicoptered last night to Mvomeka’a for a medical evaluation and treatment of French Cameroun’s longtime head of state Paul Biya after what was described by Cameroon Intelligence Report sources as a minor stroke. CIR contacts also revealed that President Biya may be flown abroad anytime soon […]
16, May 2020
Rwanda genocide suspect Kabuga arrested in Paris region 0
Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga was arrested on Saturday in the Paris region, the French Justice Ministry said. Kabuga, 84, who was living under a false identity in a flat in Asnieres-Sur-Seine, near Paris, had been pursued by international justice for 25 years, the ministry said in a statement. French gendarmes arrested him at 0530 […]
16, May 2020
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Online threats, attacks on identity and freedom of expression 0
In November 2016, protests against French majority rule in Cameroon’s English-speaking northwest and southwest regions broke out. Protesters amplified demands by Anglophone lawyers and teachers to have the Common Law and the English education system in their regions. Cameroon’s English-speaking minority makes up 20 percent of the country while the French-speaking majority makes up the […]
16, May 2020
French Cameroun Politics: Six opposition figures arrested for distributing face masks 0
Six opposition activists have been arrested in Cameroon for distributing face masks and disinfectant gel, their lawyers and Human Rights Watch said Friday. The six were arrested on Monday in a busy market in the capital Yaounde. They are all supporters of main opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who lost the 2018 presidential election to veteran […]
15, May 2020
Coronavirus: Ireland to ease lockdown, start travel quarantine 0
Ireland will begin to lift its coronavirus lockdown in the coming days while introducing a 14-day quarantine period for people arriving in the nation, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said Friday. “I can confirm that it is safe to proceed with phase one of our plan to ease the COVID-19 restrictions from Monday,” he said, indicating […]
15, May 2020
CPDM Crime Syndicate: Yaounde police arrest people without masks as COVID-19 cases increase 0
Police in Cameroon have detained several hundred people for not wearing face masks in public, as COVID-19 cases in the central African state continue to rise. Seventeen-year-old David Ngwa Fru said a team of police and gendarmes detained him and his two younger sisters in the capital, Yaounde, on Thursday morning. “The police removed us […]
17, May 2020
Brazil registers more than 15,000 Covid-19 deaths 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Brazil’s COVID-19 death toll passed 15,000 on Saturday, official data showed, while its number of infections topped 230,000, making it the country with the fourth-highest number of cases in the world. With 15,633 deaths and 233,142 confirmed cases, Brazil – whose president Jair Bolsonaro has dismissed the disease as a “little flu” – is at […]