Today on World Sight Day, Orbis, a leading non-profit in the prevention and treatment of avoidable blindness, is conducting a four-week training program on the Flying Eye Hospital—in Yaoundé, Cameroon, a country with one of the highest prevalences of blindness and visual impairment in the world. Hosted by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), the […]
Switzerland has opened a criminal probe targeting Nasser al-Khelaifi, the president of Paris Saint-Germain, and FIFA’s former secretary general Jerome Valcke, over alleged corruption in the sale of World Cup media rights. “The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has opened a criminal proceeding against the former Secretary General of FIFA and against the […]
Amid the killings by La Republique’s Paul Biya government, Inner City Press on October 11 interviewed the government’s ambassador to the UN, Tommo Monthe. He contradicted what UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric told Inner City Press, that “Mr. [Francois] Fall and the Government are in discussion about when he can go. The Government has expressed its […]
The Southern Cameroons crisis has resulted in the loss of more than 41% of the turnover of the businesses located in the territory according to figures published on Wednesday 11 October 2017 by a commission assigned by the Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Crafts (CCIMA) of La Republique du Cameroun. The statistics were compiled […]
The ambush against a joint patrol that killed four US troops on October 04 would have occurred with “a potential complicity” between villagers and the Islamic state, revealed US channel CNN. Initial investigations by US military officials hints that American soldiers killed in an ambush were reportedly trapped with the villagers’ complicity. According to AFRICOM, […]
Football icon, George Weah has emerged as the newly elected president of Liberia to succeed Elen Johnson Sirleaf. Weah defeated his closest rival, Joseph Boakai who is also the incumbent Vice President. Others include longtime opposition figure Charles Brumskine and former Coca-Cola executive Alexander Cummings. This item is still developing
The so-called Chairman of the National Commission for Human Rights and Freedoms, Chemuta Divine has said in a statement issued on October the 9th 2017 that the current Biya administration is unfit to resolve the Southern Cameroons crisis. The Chemuta Divine declaration also observed that the government should be disqualified from the negotiating table-a similar […]
Russia’s Strategic Missile Troops have kicked off large-scale military drills in Southern Siberia, nearly a month after test-firing a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that renewed a missile dispute with the US. More than 4,000 servicemen and 400 pieces of military hardware, including the Topol-M ICBM mobile launchers, were taking part in the exercise, the […]
Cameroon’s bishops have called for urgent action to deter a “growing genocide” in the country after large numbers of protesters in the Anglophone part of the predominantly French-speaking nation demonstrated in favor of independence. Since Sept. 29, the bishops said “various forms of violence and atrocities” have occurred in the north west and south west […]
The Africa focused AIM-listed oil and gas company provided an update today following a technical committee meeting and operating committee meeting with the Cameroon Ministry of Mines, Industry & Technological Development (“MINMIDT”) and the Société Nationale des Hydrocarbures (“SNH”). The meeting was held in Douala. Tower now plans to reprocess the existing 3D seismic data […]
