As the world waits to watch the World Cup final in Moscow on Sunday, the stories of the two contenders have fascinated soccer pundits and fans alike. Croatia, a nation of four million people, will be playing their first World Cup final and hoping to join the very exclusive list of just eight nations that […]
Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba, weeks after his conviction for war crimes was quashed at The Hague, was nominated by his party on Friday for December’s presidential vote, in what could be the stiffest challenge to President Joseph Kabila’s ruling coalition. The election is due to choose a successor to Kabila, who is term-limited after having […]
US President Donald Trump has arrived in Scotland as thousands of demonstrators gathered to protest his visit. Trump touched down at Prestwick Airport Saturday evening after paying an official visit to London, where he met with Prime Minister Theresa May and Queen Elizabeth amid huge protests. People held a rally in Glasgow ahead of Trump’s […]
The chairman of the African Union Commission, Dr Moussa Faki Mahamat, arrived in Cameroon Thursday for an official visit. Dr Mahamat was received at the Nsimalen International Airport in Yaoundé by Cameroonian Prime Minister Philemon Yang. The AU chief’s second visit to Cameroon comes shortly after the 31st summit of the organisation in Nouakchott, Mauritania. […]
More than 21,000 people from Cameroon’s Anglophone region have fled to Nigeria in recent months. Not only do they struggle to find enough to eat but also have to come to terms with their traumatic experiences. Pauline Agba knows many residents of the Adikpo refugee camp. They keep stopping her on her rounds to talk […]
When the American ambassador took up his post in Cameroon late last year, he stepped into an increasingly troubled nation, locked in battle against Islamist militants in one part of the country and armed separatists in another. And then there is the matter of its leader. Cameroon has not had a new president since Michael […]
President of Cameroon, Paul Biya, has confirmed his candidacy for presidential polls slated for October 7 this year. This will be his seventh consecutive mandate which will also extend his reign till 2025. It will, however, be the fifth universal suffrage with multiple candidates. The octogenarian who is considered one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders made […]
Cameroon is facing a growing danger of economic collapse and a civil war, provoked in large part by French government support for the 85 year President Paul Biya. This week Biya tweeted his intention to run for the October presidential elections amid worsening security situation in the country. The Biya move came after the United […]
At least five persons were injured on Thursday following an attack by separatist fighters on the convoy of Cameroon’s Defense Minister along the Kumba-Ekondo-Titi road in the South West Region of the country, sources have confirmed. According to credible reports, four soldiers and a journalist working for state -run newspaper Cameroun Tribune who were all […]
Breaking all normal diplomatic conventions, Donald Trump has blasted his host, British Prime Minister Theresa May, in an interview published shortly after May rolled out the red carpet at Blenheim Palace for the US president’s first official visit to Britain. In the explosive interview with the British tabloid Sun published on Thursday night, Trump disparaged May’s compromise, […]
