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29, March 2020
COVID-19: Cameroon’s confirmed cases rise to 113 0
Cameroon reported on Sunday 14 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 113, Cameroon’s Minister of Public Health Manaouda Malachie tweeted on Sunday morning. “The majority of positive cases are people from countries at risk who hide in families”, he added. On Friday, Manaouda tweeted that an “active and early case finding by generalized […]
29, March 2020
World’s coronavirus infections pass 660,000 0
Cases of coronavirus infection in the world have surpassed 660,000, while the epidemic has yet to reach its peak in the worst-hit countries of Europe and has just begun in the world’s poorest continent, Africa. Data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University also showed that the number of people who have died of the disease […]
29, March 2020
Manu Dibango and Cameroon political hostility: No credible public statement from President Paul Biya, or from the Ministry of Culture 0
African jazz has lost another of its best-known icons. Emmanuel N’Djoké Dibango, popularly known as Manu Dibango, was, like Hugh Masekela who died last year, a global star of Afro-jazz and funk. The saxophonist Dibango leaves a huge legacy spanning more than 60 years of musical production that will continue to echo in global music. His brand of […]
29, March 2020
Cameroonian Muslims Defy Coronavirus Prayer Restrictions 0
Muslims in Cameroon have defied and are protesting government restrictions on prayer attendance at mosques, imposed to reduce the spread of COVID-19, which has so far been confirmed in 92 people in less than a month. The Muslims say the government order defies God’s teachings. Hundreds of Muslim faithful attended their Friday worship sessions in […]
29, March 2020
Stabilizing Cameroon requires a sustained solution for democracy, rights, and governance 0
As regional and international partners focus on countering Boko Haram in West Africa’s Lake Chad Region, another crisis is playing out in southern Cameroon, where the armed conflict between the government and separatists has killed more than 3,000 and displaced close to 600,000. After nearly two years of violence, the two sides are at a […]
29, March 2020
COVID 19: Father Maurice Agbaw-Ebai says Jesus will raise new life from the present time, ushering a new reality in human history 0
The Believer and Lazarus of Bethany “Master, the one you love is ill” (John 11:3) Dear Holy People of God of Ste Anne’s Parish Family, Good is good, all the time, and all the time, God is good! The Gospel of this Sunday presents us with the resuscitation of Lazarus, which is very different from […]
28, March 2020
Italy coronavirus death toll tops 10,000 0
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has surged by 889 to top 10,000, the Civil Protection Agency said on Saturday, the second highest daily tally since the epidemic emerged on February 21. The toll in Italy, which has suffered more deaths than any other country, now stands at 10,023. An additional […]
28, March 2020
Boko Haram attacks in northern Cameroon continue unabated 0
While the attention of the authorities and the international community has shifted to the Anglophone Cameroon, attacks perpretrated by Boko Haram have resumed in the far north of the country. As dawn broke, Akhada set to work. Huddled on a small chair, he has been sorting the millet grains from the sack placed near him […]
28, March 2020
Human Rights Watch says Cameroon should protect prison population from COVID-19 0
This week Cameroon recorded its first death from COVID-19. 88 cases have now been confirmed across the country, although limited testing means the real number is likely higher. The government recently took measures to curb the spread of the virus, including shutting schools, closing borders, banning mass gatherings, and encouraging people to follow hygiene rules. […]
29, March 2020
Biya regime arrests prostitutes offering sex at virus isolation centres 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
Authorities in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde, have arrested prostitutes who have been visiting coronavirus isolation centres in some hotels and offering their services. The prostitutes, who earn at least $30 a night, have been approaching travellers from Europe despite the risk of contracting the disease and spreading it. Mr Jean Claude Tsila, the capital’s administrative officer, […]