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7, March 2020
Yaounde Calls for Increased Hygiene Measures After First Coronavirus Case 0
Cameroon confirmed the central African state’s first case of COVID-19 on its territory Friday. Officials say it was discovered in a French citizen who arrived in Cameroon on Feb. 24. Cameroon Health Minister Manaouda Malachie says the 58-year-old man was immediately placed in solitary confinement in a special hospital in. Malachie credited surveillance measures put […]
7, March 2020
Biya regime to hold postponed vote in Southern Cameroons on March 22 0
Cameroon will hold a legislative election in parts of the country’s conflict-ravaged English-speaking regions on March 22 after the first attempt last month was annulled, the presidency said Friday. Voting in 11 electoral districts in the anglophone North-West and South-West would be “convened on Sunday, March 22 in order to continue the election of MPs […]
7, March 2020
French Cameroun political icon Adamou Ndam Njoya dies aged 77 0
Dr Adamou Ndam Njoya one of French Cameroun’s refined academics is no more. The onetime Minister of National Education and president of the International Organization for Islamic Studies who also moonlighted as leader of the Cameroon Democratic Union, CDU passed away in Yaounde. Local media recently revealed that he was diagnosed with cancer in 2018 […]
6, March 2020
Yaounde records first case of Coronavirus 0
The first case of Coronavirus has been recorded in Cameroon. The Minister of Public Health confirmed the information earlier today. According to the minister, a case of Coronavirus was confirmed at the Centre Pasteur laboratory in Yaoundé after a sampling carried out Thursday at the Cathedral Clinic on a French citizen who arrived in Cameroon […]
6, March 2020
Former CIA intel officer says Coronavirus was produced in a laboratory 0
A former American counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer of the CIA has said that the “Coronavirus did not occur naturally through mutation but rather was produced in a laboratory, possibly as a biological warfare agent.” Since the novel coronavirus outbreak began in China last December, it has infected more than 90,000 people globally and […]
6, March 2020
Olympic qualifier: Late winner gives Cameroon a 3-2 win over Zambia 0
Cameroon’s Aboudi Onguene scored a brace to give her side a 3-2 win against Zambia in the first leg of the African women’s football Olympic play-off final. The striker scored an 88th minute winner in an eventful game in Yaounde, handing her side a narrow advantage before the second leg in Lusaka on 10 March. […]
6, March 2020
Cameroonians won U.S. asylum in 81% of cases in the 2019 fiscal year 0
President Donald Trump isn’t the only world leader making it virtually impossible for many Africans to get asylum in the United States. He’s getting plenty of help from allies in the Americas. Ecuador is closing its doors as one of the few countries in North and South America to welcome African visitors, depriving them of […]
6, March 2020
Football: CAF General Secretary quits, commercial director handed acting role 0
The General Secretary of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Mouad Hajji resigned his post less than a year after he was confirmed in the role. Despite the official reason being that he was quitting for personal reasons, he left at a time when the continent’s soccer governing body has been embroiled in crisis. His […]
6, March 2020
Coronavirus: US Vice President says tests not enough as death toll reaches 12 0
US Vice President Mike Pence has admitted that the country does not have enough coronavirus tests available to satisfy the demand despite previously saying that everyone can be tested. On Tuesday, Pence said that any American could be tested for the virus if a doctor deemed it necessary. “We’re issuing new guidance, effective immediately, from […]
7, March 2020
Ambazonia Crisis: 150 Cameroonian Women Transferred After Protesting ICE Custody in the US 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
150 women from Cameroon who have been imprisoned for months in a for-profit ICE detention center in Texas have been transferred to other remote immigration jails, in apparent retaliation for their protests over indefinite detention and dangerous conditions. In a letter sent to the advocacy group Grassroots Leadership last month headlined “A Cry for Help,” […]