Cameroon’s second largest employer, the Cameroon Development Corporation, says it may be forced to downsize because thousands of workers have fled fighting between security forces and separatists seeking an independent English-speaking state. The atmosphere is quiet at the workers’ residential area of the Cameroon Development Corporation in Illoani, a village of about 5,000 people. But […]
Cameroon’s electoral body, ELECAM, on Tuesday cleared nine candidates to run for the presidential polls slated for October 7, 2018. Incumbent Paul Biya is seeking to extend his 36 years in power by a fresh seven-year mandate. The nine include Biya who leads the ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement (CPDM). His main challengers will be Joshua […]
A tanker truck carrying flammable material exploded Monday on a highway near the northern Italian city of Bologna, killing at least two people and injuring up to 70 as a section of the thoroughfare collapsed, police said. Italian police said between 60 and 70 people were injured, some with severe burns, during the midday accident on […]
Violence in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali region has reportedly left an unknown number of civilians dead and thousands of others displaced over the weekend. The patriarchy of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church in the regional capital Jijiga, where thousands have sought refuge, reported the news to state media on Monday, without providing details on what had sparked the […]
Directorate of Criminal Investigations director George Kinoti has ignored a court order and rearrested a Cameroonian national who was deported from the country last year but managed to find his way back. Doctta Peter Longa, who was deported last year and declared persona non grata in Kenya was arrested two weeks ago in Nairobi and released on a […]
Five police have been killed in fresh violence in western Cameroon, where English-speaking separatists have declared an independent state, security sources and witnesses said on Monday. Four gendarmes were killed in Esu, a village near the town of Wum in Northwest Region, when their unit came under attack on Sunday, a source close to the […]
The Southern Cameroons crisis that has given the country a bad name is gradually getting into a critical phase. The country’s minister of territorial administration is not displaying the maturity leadership imposes on people. He is still talking tough and this is hurting any chances for peace. If talking tough could address many issues, the […]
WOMEN under the auspices of Women Advancement for Economic and Leadership Empowerment in Africa, WAELE, plan to assist 160, 000 families affected by crisis in English speaking part of Cameroon. This was disclosed by the Coordinator, WAELE Cameroon, Beatrice Fonkem, while speaking on a three year strategic plan by the organization to add value on […]
The bodies of three Russian journalists who were killed in Central African Republic have been brought back to Moscow, where they are to undergo a forensic examination. Svetlana Petrenko, a spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee, said Sunday the bodies had been turned over to committee experts and would be examined “with the goal of establishing […]
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his archfoe Riek Machar, the leader of the main rebel group in the African country, have signed a final power-sharing deal in an attempt to end a bloody civil war that engulfed the youngest nation in the world during the past five years. The two rivals, in neighboring Sudan, […]
