FC Porto striker Vincent Aboubakar is the only Cameroonian player among the 11 best African players for 2017 named by France Football Magazine. Despite his heroics at the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon, Ondoa Fabrice only made the bench of the team selected by the top journalists of the leading football magazine in France. […]
A Turkish state-run aid agency provided food aid to 5,885 Muslim refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) living in difficult circumstances in eastern Cameroon, it said on Tuesday. In a statement, the Turkish Agency for Cooperation and Coordination (TIKA) said it supplied 50 tons of basic food stuff to the Uni Pour Servir refugee […]
George Weah’s soccer talent took him from a slum surrounded by swamps in Liberia to superstardom in Paris, Milan and London, becoming the first and still only African to win FIFA’s world player of the year award. That’s only half the story. Raised in a poor neighborhood built on a mangrove swamp on the neglected […]
9 people have been killed following the collapse of a gold mine in the East region of French Cameroun. The tragedy occurred in Ngoura, a district in the Lom-and-Djerem Division headquartered in Bertoua. The commune of Ngoura, bordering the Central African Republic is hosting a sea of gold prospectors mainly of Cameroonian and Central African […]
His US based manager, Eyong Eyong Ebot in a telephone conversation with our entertainment editor hinted that “it’s a two new singles”. Petit Pays has announced that he’s releasing a new album that exclusively consists of “Ndongo Le Piment with the group Sans Visas”. The album known as ‘Black and White, is a Moh Kukouri […]
The longest-serving Republican member of the US Senate, Orrin Hatch, has announced that he will retire at the end of his term in November this year. The 83-year-old senator from the US state of Utah made the announcement in a video posted to twitter on Tuesday, saying, he was “deeply grateful” to serve as a […]
A leader of the militant group Boko Haram has released a video claiming it carried out a series of attacks in north-east Nigeria over the Christmas period. Abubakar Shekau, the head of one of Boko Haram’s three factions, declared the group active and operational a day after the Nigerian president said the militants had been defeated. “We […]
Felix Agbor Nkongho looked over his shoulder at a secluded Yaoundé cafe. As a leader of Cameroon’s growing anglophone rights movement, he had reason to be on his guard. A month previously he had been in prison in the capital, waiting to be tried under the country’s new anti-terrorism laws. A prominent lawyer and activist, […]
At least 17 people have been killed after a group of armed assailants stormed a church in southern Nigeria and went on a shooting spree, local officials say. The deadly incident occurred in the town of Omoku, some 90 kilometers from the southern oil hub of Port Harcourt in Rivers State late on Monday, when […]
In Berlin, special tents were set up at the Brandenburg Gate to care for women victims of sexual harassment or those who feel threatened, following mass assaults on women in Cologne two years ago. In Cologne itself, 1,400 police were being mobilised, street lighting improved and more video cameras installed. As the midnight chimes neared […]
