At least 30 Nigerian soldiers died in combat with Boko Haram jihadists who overran a military base in the northeast near the border with Niger, two military sources told AFP on Saturday. Scores of jihadists in trucks stormed the base at Zari village in northern Borno state late Thursday and briefly seized it after a […]
AMBAZONIA PARENTS ASSOCIATION (APA) Motto: Education for Edification The position of the Ambazonia Parents Association on School Resumption. Fellow Ambazonians. After due consultations with our Executive Members, and a cross section of Ambazonian Parents on Ground Zero on the burning matter of school resumption, we arrived at the following resolutions: 1) Congratulate the Parents on […]
Bowleven, the Africa focused oil and gas company traded on AIM, has announced the spud of the IE-4 appraisal well on the Etinde Block, Cameroon, by the block’s operator, New Age Cameroon Offshore Petroleum SA. The IE-4 well is the second of two appraisal wells to be drilled in 2018. The Etinde Joint Venture partners […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with Cameroonian President Paul Biya ahead of the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Xi pointed out that since Biya’s visit to China in March, both sides have been actively implementing the consensus reached between the presidents, bringing new achievements in exchanges and cooperations […]
Troops in the West African nation of Cameroon have tortured prisoners at a remote military base that is also used by U.S. personnel and private contractors for drone surveillance and training missions. As the U.S. military has fortified the Cameroonian site, known as Salak, and supported the elite local troops based there, the outpost has become […]
Moscow has denied a claim made by former French president Francois Hollande in his memoirs that Russian President Vladimir Putin had threatened to “crush” Ukrainian troops. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov emphasized that he had never heard the Russian president use such an expression. “I was practically at every negotiation. I did not hear this phrase,” […]
The President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, has taken the case for expanded partnerships and investments in Africa to the Netherlands. On a three-day visit this week, he met with government officials and private and public sector business leaders and affirmed the accord between the Bank and the Dutch government’s development agendas and […]
The spiraling crisis in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions has tarnished President Paul Biya’s reputation in the West as an arbiter of stability in tenuous central Africa and could threaten his long hold on power. The group of Cameroonians meeting under the blazing sun in Germany represents both sides of the divide in the conflict between […]
Real Madrid and Croatia midfielder, Luka Modric, has been voted player of the year for last season, by European football body UEFA, ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo, Mohamed Salah and Lionel Messi. Real Madrid Croatia’s midfielder Luka Modric (L) shakes hands with Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah as he receives the UEFA Men’s Player of the Year award during the […]
Cocoa firms operating in Cameroon have moved staff out of the Anglophone region of the country and farmers are abandoning their crops in the area, as violence between separatists and security forces intensifies, exporters and farmers told Reuters. Sources say the deepening conflict has started denting cocoa output and flow from the southwest, stripping the […]
