Cameroon has a new military region created to cater for security needs in the west and northwest region, the state-owned CRTV has reported. President Paul Biya signed directives reorganizing the country’s defense forces leading to the splitting into two of the former military region [Région militaire interarmées – RMIA] RMIA 2 which is based in Douala. The new region becomes […]
More than 25,000 refugees have travelled across the border from Cameroon to Nigeria and dozens continue to arrive every week. Caritas Nigeria is appealing for urgent support to fight an emerging humanitarian crisis as a growing number of refugees have been forced to flee political upheaval and armed conflict in neighbouring Cameroon. “The situation is […]
Members of Cameroon’s leading opposition party, the Social Democratic Front (SDF), are in Bamenda, the North West regional headquarters, where they are expected to attend their party’s annual congress. The congress will be taking place amid high tension as unknown armed groups in the region are threatening to disrupt the event following criticisms by the […]
Human rights advocacy organization Amnesty International has accused US President Donald Trump of violating human rights by adopting “hateful” politics. “President Trump takes actions that violate human rights at home and abroad,” the group said in its annual report The State of the World’s Human Rights published Thursday. Salil Shetty, Amnesty’s Secretary General, named Trump’s last year […]
US President Donald Trump’s decision to curb the use of gun-enhancing devices such as a bump-stock ban is a late and inadequate decision that is mostly motivated by reelection concerns, says an African American journalist in Detroit. “Trump is merely responding because he thinks he will be very vulnerable in the upcoming 2020 [presidential] elections,” said […]
President Biya has reportedly ordered the governor of the North West region to hand over the keys of the Congress Hall in Bamenda to the SDF Chairman Ni John Fru Ndi, Cameroon Intelligence Report has learned from a well-placed source in Yaoundé. Our source further pointed out that the SDF congress will hold under very […]
US Christian evangelist Billy Graham, one of the most influential Gospel preachers of the 20th Century and a counselor to 12 US presidents, has died aged 99. The Southern Baptist preacher eventually became the world’s foremost Christian evangelist, spreading a message of spiritual redemption at tent and stadium revival meetings. In his over 60-year career, […]
President Paul BIYA has reportedly granted an audience to Equatorial Guinea’s Minister of State for Regional Integration, Baltasar Engonga Edjo’o. Both men met at the Unity Palace today Wednesday 21 February 2018. The Equato-Guinean envoy was bearer of a sealed envelope from President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. Speaking to reporters after the audience, Baltasar Engonga […]
Despite their poker face when on national television, officials of the ruling CPDM (Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement) and their cronies have been caught in a huge storm that might soon tear the government apart. The long knife that has, for many years, eliminated perceived opponents might very soon turn inwards and the consequences will be […]
Turkey will build a vocational training center complex in Cameroonian capital Yaounde, according to National Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz Wednesday. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) and the National Education Ministry will establish the center of excellence in vocational training, including clothing production and construction technology centers. Yilmaz and Cameroonian Minister of Employment and Vocational Training Zacharie Perevet also signed an agreement on “Technology Transfer […]
