Cameroon has placed its return to the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) among its priorities for an economic dialogue with the United States scheduled for August 27 in Yaounde. The government is also seeking US cooperation on a standards and quality laboratory and a planned commodity exchange. Trade Minister Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana presented […]
Libya’s eastern-based army said Tuesday that a car bomb killed its military intelligence chief, Fawzi al-Mansouri, in Benghazi. The assassination raises fresh questions over security in the stronghold of military commander Khalifa Haftar as efforts continue to reunify the divided country. The head of military intelligence for the Libyan National Army (LNA), which controls the […]
A senior advisor to the chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran’s production of ballistic missiles and drones exceeds the rate at which the Islamic Republic deploys the hardware. “We produce ballistic missiles at a rate exceeding the one at which they are deployed, and deliver them to the Islamic Republic’s […]
One person was killed and several others injured on Monday during armed clashes in Buea, the capital of Cameroon’s English-speaking southwestern region, according to sources. The fighting began around 1:00 p.m. local time between government forces and suspected separatist fighters, said a military official, who asked not to be named. “The separatist terrorists opened fire […]
On June 7, 2026, President Paul Biya left Yaoundé with his wife for what the Presidency described as a “brief private stay in Europe.” Sixty-five days later, on August 11, he remains outside Cameroon. The number matters. But the deeper issue is not the length of one presidential trip. It is what such a prolonged […]