Cameroon-focused producer Victoria Oil & Gas said subsidiary Gaz du Cameroun had entered into an exclusive agreement to partner with European compressed natural gas supplier Naturelgaz Sanayi ve Ticaret. Naturelgaz is a subsidiary of Turkey-listed Global Investment Holdings. The partnership would involve the construction of compressed natural gas infrastructure and solutions for customers needing mobile […]
French President Emmanuel Macron made his first official visit to the Vatican on Tuesday where he held an unusually long meeting with Pope Francis. The tete-a-tete between the Argentine pontiff and Macron in the Vatican’s ornate library lasted 57 minutes — the longest between Francis and a head of state. Past talks between the pope […]
Online sports betting is booming in soccer-mad Nigeria largely thanks to payment systems developed by homegrown technology firms that are starting to make online businesses more viable. For years, mobile payments failed to take off in Nigeria as they have in countries such as Kenya, where Safaricom’s M-Pesa money transfers have fostered a culture of […]
Iran coach Carlos Queiroz said Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo was fortunate to escape a red card despite a VAR review following an elbow in Monday’s 1-1 draw at the World Cup. Portugal will face Uruguay in the last 16 after advancing as runners-up of Group B, but Queiroz insisted Ronaldo deserved to be sent off […]
Cameroon’s governance and security problems have historically attracted little outside attention. But this seems likely to change, for two reasons. The first is the growing political crisis in the Central African nation’s English-speaking region. The second is a presidential election scheduled for October 2018. Roughly 20% of the country’s population of 24.6 million people are Anglophone. The majority are Francophone. The […]
The main rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a weekend presidential election said Monday he accepted defeat in the first round. However, OSCE observers said the ruling party had enjoyed undue advantages. “I accept these election results,” said Muharrem Ince of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) who came second to Erdogan in the polls but […]
A new round of peace talks is set to start in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, with an aim to end the bloody civil war that has been gripping neighboring South Sudan for more than four years. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and his former first vice president and present arch-enemy, Riek Machar, will hold fresh peace […]
The largest employer after the Cameroon government has been handed over to foreign investors. A CDC protocol agreement signed on Wednesday 20th June, 2018 in Yaoundé finally brought to reality the much rumoured speculation of privatisation. Three companies: Tylium from Egypt, Fertilore and Timac Agro from France are the new owners of the multi agro […]
Press Statement: Update on Decisive Action(s) taken against the splinter group of SOBA UK Fellow Sobans, On 24th February 2018, the members of the SOBA UK General Assembly convened and voted unanimously to: a) reject calls for fresh elections in the UK by SOBA General in Cameroon and, b) take necessary actions to redress any […]
The rather combative government riposte to the Amnesty report was an unnecessary own goal that sullies and casts aspersion on Cameroon’s image before the international community. The alarm bell sounded by Amnesty International on the vicious cycle of violence currently taking place in the Anglophone regions is hardly surprising, coming as it were amidst the […]
