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21, April 2020
Nigeria directs agencies to stop Ambazonian refugees from entering Benue State 0
The Federal Government has directed security agencies to stop Cameroonian refugees fleeing Southern Cameroons from gaining entrance into Nigeria through Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State to check the spread of Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, in the country. State Deputy Governor, and chairman of the State Action Committee on COVID-19, Benson Abounu, announced this, yesterday, […]
21, April 2020
Ambazonia: Two traditional leaders reported killed in Bambili 0
Gunmen shot dead two traditional leaders in volatile western Cameroon before being gunned down by soldiers, a local ruler said Monday, adding that the assailants were believed to be anglophone separatists. The casualties were the president and secretary general of a traditional council, according to Afungchwi III, the king of Bambili, where the clash took […]
21, April 2020
Covid-19 deaths in France surpass 20,000 as hospitalisations continue to fall 0
France has reported 547 deaths in hospitals and nursing homes from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours as the number of new hospitalisations continued a slow decline. France – which on Monday became the fourth country to record more than 20,000 deaths as a result of the pandemic and has the fourth-highest toll in the […]
21, April 2020
Oil prices close below zero in unprecedented collapse 0
Oil futures plunged below zero on Monday, the latest never-before-seen number to come out of the economic coma caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Stocks and Treasury yields also dropped on Wall Street, with the S&P 500 down 1.8%, but the market’s most dramatic action by far was in oil, where the cost to have a […]
21, April 2020
UN slaps sanctions on Central Africa rebel chief 0
The UN Security Council on Monday imposed sanctions on Central African Republic rebel leader Abdoulaye Miskine, who last year signed a peace agreement between the government and armed groups. Miskine, founder and head of the Democratic Front of the Central African People (FDPC), was offered a government position under the terms of the February 2019 […]
20, April 2020
Ghana lifts coronavirus lockdown as cases hit 1,042 0
Ghana’s president on Sunday lifted targeted lockdown on two major regions in the country citing improved testing of the coronavirus pandemic across the West African country. In the over half-an-hour address delivered to the nation, the president also announced that Ghana’s tally had passed the 1,000 mark. Ghana becomes the first African country to not […]
20, April 2020
Yaounde receives coronavirus aid 0
The Biya regime has received 100 respirators and 300 thousand diagnostic test kits to combat the coronavirus pandemic. State media reported that the cargo ordered by the Cameroon government, arrived on Saturday at the Yaounde Nsimalen International Airport transported by Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight. Health officials say the arrival of the respirators and diagnostic kits […]
20, April 2020
Cameroon coronavirus death rate Doubles in 24 Hours 0
The number of deaths related to the coronavirus disease in Cameroon increased from 22 to 42 in just 24 hours. According to the Francophone Minister of Public Health, 42 patients have died in Cameroon since the first case of coronavirus was confirmed on March 6. On Friday evening, the minister announced 22 deaths and on […]
20, April 2020
Cameroon not financially and materially able to handle its increasing COVID-19 cases 0
More than a thousand COVID cases have been confirmed in conflict-prone Cameroon, provoking fears that the situation may get out of hand if the virus spreads to refugee camps and areas where internally displaced persons from the country’s separatist crisis and Boko Haram terrorism live. Rights groups are asking for humanitarian assistance, saying resources are […]
21, April 2020
French Cameroun monarch makes personal contribution to fight against COVID-19 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
Cameroonian President Paul Biya on Monday donated “special gifts” to fight the coronavirus, as the central African country exceeded 1,000 confirmed cases over the weekend with 42 deaths. The country’s Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji said in a statement the gifts evaluated to the tune of 2 billion CFA francs (about 3.32 millions […]