Cameroon authorities have released around 50 opposition supporters detained in Douala, but also arrested others on Sunday in Yaoundé, their party said. “They were freed,” said a member of Maurice Kamto’s party, Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC) in reference to those arrested Saturday during an unauthorised march called to protest the results of […]
The Roman Catholic church, the main religious body in Cameroon has issued conflicting comments on the conduct of the October 7 presidential election in which incumbent Paul Biya was declared the winner. Church bells ring at Our Lady of Victories Cathedral in Yaounde, inviting Catholics to a mass to be said by metropolitan Archbishop Jean […]
Cameroon’s president, Paul Biya, also known as the monarch, returned to the nation’s capital on Sunday, October 28, 2018, after a short visit to his native Mvomeka’a where he was relaxing after a long bruising presidential election campaign that made his age and departure the central themes of the campaign. Upon arrival in Yaounde, Mr. […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party that she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman at a conference in December, a senior party source said Monday. She will however remain chancellor. Merkel has been CDU chairwoman since 2000 and has been Germany’s leader since 2005. The CDU is due to […]
A passenger plane with 189 people on board has crashed into the sea off Indonesia’s island of Java, only minutes after taking off from the capital Jakarta. The Lion Air Boeing 737 lost contact with air traffic officials on the ground on Monday morning only 13 minutes after leaving the Soekarno Hatta international airport for […]
On 23 October 2018, Paul Biya was sworn in for his 7th consecutive term in office as President of Cameroon. At 85 years old, Biya stands as the longest ruling national leader, having accumulated 43 years at the head of the Cameroonian state, first as Prime Minister (1975-1982) and subsequently as President (1982-2018). The last […]
Hundreds of people, most of them youths, Saturday marched and sang in the streets of Cameroon’s economic capital city, Douala, calling for Cameroon President Paul Biya to step down immediately. Bosco Etoundi, a 23-year-old university graduate, says protesters believe Maurice Kamto, of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement political party, who ran against Paul Biya in Cameroon’s […]
Cameroon’s Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji said on Friday the government will “not tolerate” any post-electoral disorder in the country. “The election process is over. Public manifestations have therefore to respect the prescriptions of the law.” Nji told a press conference in the capital, Yaounde. “All attempts to disrupt public order will be […]
Gunmen have killed a linguistics professor in Cameroon’s volatile English-speaking Northwest region, hit by a bloody separatist campaign and a brutal security crackdown, a university official said Friday. Paul Kuban Mbufong was shot dead on Thursday while going to work in the University of Bamenda, the institution’s rector, Emmanuel Suh Cheo, said in a statement. […]
The re-election this week of Cameroon’s President Paul Biya — in power since 1982 — could be bad news, not just for Cameroon and the region, but for the United States. Cameroon for a long time was regarded as a paragon of stability in a part of the world too often marked by insecurity, civil […]
