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15, May 2020
Covid-19 brings out Biya regime’s ugly side, Opposition parties not allowed to participate in response 0
The message of national solidarity around the Covid-19 pandemic seems to have been lost in Cameroon. While several other governments are calling on its citizens to pull together and help one another, Cameroon’s ruling party is using the pandemic to settle scores and punish the opposition. A man who received a protective mask and a […]
15, May 2020
Football and the virus: Liverpool’s Klopp pokes fun at Neville over lockdown rants 0
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has joked that his biggest lesson from the coronavirus lockdown is just how outspoken former Manchester United defender Gary Neville can be. In his role as a television pundit, Neville has vented on a range of issues related to the Premier League and the health crisis. The former England international has […]
15, May 2020
More Americans disapprove Trump’s handling of coronavirus 0
More Americans say they think President Donald Trump is doing a “bad job” handling the coronavirus pandemic and don’t trust him to provide accurate data about the outbreak, according to a new poll. The CBS News poll found that 57 percent of respondents said they believe Trump is doing a “bad job” handling the public […]
15, May 2020
Without wearing a mask, Trump tours Pennsylvania mask distribution center 0
Without wearing a face mask himself, President Donald Trump toured a mask distribution center in Pennsylvania on Thursday and announced plans to replenish the US strategic stockpile of medical equipment depleted by the coronavirus outbreak. Trump, a Republican who is running for re-election in November, has resisted wearing a mask in public despite his administration’s […]
15, May 2020
WHO says coronavirus could infect over 200mn in Africa 0
The new coronavirus could kill 150,000 people in Africa in a year unless urgent action is taken, according to a WHO modelling study that says nearly a quarter of a billion people will be infected. Authors of the research, published Friday in the journal BMJ Global Health, predicted a lower infection rate than in other […]
15, May 2020
Readout of Swiss President’s phone call with Paul Biya 0
The President of the Swiss Confederation, Mrs Simonetta Sommaruga has said on her Twitter account that she had a telephone conversation with the French Cameroun dictator Paul Biya on the 14th of May 2020 on the crisis in Southern Cameroons and the coronavirus pandemic. She reiterated to the 88 year-old leader, her country’s willingness to […]
14, May 2020
Biya should handover to DAVID ABOUEM À TCHOYI now 0
Southern Cameroonians are no longer attached to their television sets and radios relaying information from the French Cameroun capital, Yaoundé. They are now on their computers and mobile phones, avidly following the war against French Cameroun occupation and the politics going on in the diaspora. Ambazonians are now fully aware that they made a costly […]
14, May 2020
Ambazonia Crisis and the virus: PWD of Bamenda declared Cameroon league champions 0
Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) has terminated its domestic championships over the novel coronavirus pandemic, effectively declaring PWD of Bamenda champions of Elite One league. Fecafoot Tuesday announced that it was impossible to complete the 2019/20 football season due to Covid-19 virus which had infected 2,689 people as at Wednesday. Cameroon national government suspended soccer and […]
14, May 2020
Yaounde: Traditional Healers See Rush for Herbal Medicines to Treat COVID-19 0
Cameroon’s traditional healers say they are being overwhelmed by the number of people seeking herbal medicine for prevention or treatment of the coronavirus. The rush for traditional healing comes as the central African nation confirms more than 2,500 cases of COVID-19 and 121 deaths. But medical doctors caution the use of herbal medicine for the coronavirus. […]
15, May 2020
Ambazonia Crisis, Boko Haram derails exploration in Bakassi and the Far North 0
by soter • Africa, Business, Headline News
Force majeure has been declared at two areas in Cameroon, Bakassi in the southwest and Zina-Makary in the far north, as a result of insecurity. Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures’ (SNH) director of strategy Maurice Matanga disclosed the problems in an interview with the company’s newsletter. Matanga was discussing the country’s 2020-24 development plan and reflecting […]