The European Union recently expressed regret over Cameroon’s failure to implement the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) regarding guarantees on timber harvested and exported to EU member states. This agreement serves as a legal framework to combat illegal logging and the associated trade. However, 13 years after Cameroon signed the agreement, “logging still partly relies on […]
A logging truck collided with an intercity passenger bus, a Coaster model operated by Galaxie Voyages, near Kombe on the Yaoundé-Sangmelima road in Cameroon. Witnesses said the accident happened today at the Nnemeyong bend. The bus had left Sangmelima around 7 a.m. heading to Yaoundé. Local sources reported that at least 19 bodies had been […]
As rumours continue to circulate about the health of the Cameroonian president, Cameroon’s Paris-based diplomat André Magnus Ekoumou says Biya is in Geneva. For nearly a month, the health of Paul Biya, 91, has been the subject of widespread speculation, as the Cameroonian president has successively cancelled appearances at the United Nations General Assembly, the […]
The government in Yaoundé has said that rumours of all kinds circulating through conventional media and social networks about President Biya’s condition are pure fantasy. Biya has not been seen in public since attending a China-Africa forum in Beijing in early September. His failure to appear as scheduled at a summit in France last weekend […]
Ministers Fame Ndongo and Gregoire Owona have reassured Cameroonians about the health of President Paul Biya, 91, and expressed anger at those who announced the demise of the ailing dictator, Cameroon Radio and Television reported on Tuesday after Prime Minister Dion Ngute reportedly cancelled the weekly cabinet meeting. Cameroon Concord News reported that President Paul […]
Lawmakers have accused the 59-year-old deputy to President William Ruto of corruption, undermining the government and practising ethnically divisive politics, among a host of other charges. At a press conference on Monday, Gachagua denied the accusations as “outrageous” and “sheer propaganda”, saying it was a scheme to hound him out of office. Gachagua is a […]
Cameroon has joined the AgSys (Sustainable Agricultural Systems and Policies) project, a global initiative launched by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Funded with €5 million—around CFA3.2 billion—the project will run for four years (2023-2027) and will assist Cameroon in transforming its agricultural systems to enhance sustainability. AgSys aims to help […]
President Biya’s family is now living in a well guarded house in France, it has been claimed. Aides to the dictator have moved his family and a select band of relatives to France late yesterday. The move is said to have come about after the 91-year-old leader disappeared from public view. Intelligence sources told Cameroon […]
Teachers in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions on Saturday called for more efforts to strengthen security measures for teachers, students and schools in the regions where an armed separatist conflict is underway. “Many of us are threatened, kidnapped, tortured and some have even been killed — for the simple fact that we are teachers,” the All Anglophone […]
It is being reported in France and Switzerland that Cameroon’s President is no more. The 91-year-old dictator, who undertook a long tiring journey to China, might not be returning to his country in front of the plane. Paul Biya, who has ruled Cameroon for almost 42 years, seems to have succumbed to the inevitable after […]
