A military brass band and formations of Cameroonian Armed Forces troops welcomed multinational participants and signaled the opening of the inaugural exercise Unified Focus in Cameroon on 24 April. UF 17 is a weeklong tabletop exercise that brings the military partners of the Lake Chad Basin area’s Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) together to practice […]
Twenty people died in ethnic clashes last week in the troubled central Kasai region of Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Wednesday. The UN’s DR Congo mission, MONUSCO, said in a statement that the clashes took place on April 19 east of the Kasai capital, Tshikapa, between members of the Lulua-Luba and Chowe-Pende […]
The Road Transport Directorate of the Ministère des Transports of La Republique du Cameroun has announced that 2000 people lost their lives in 2016 on roads. The management team of the transport department observed that several driving schools operate outside the regulations in force and many of them do not have teaching materials, city maps, […]
“…We are not indebted to the Reason of man for any of the great achievements which are the hallmarks of human action and human progress. It is not Reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the Desert to conquer the world; that inspired the Crusades; that instituted the […]
Former Prime Minister, Peter Mafany Musonge and the other members of the so-called National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism will be installed on Thursday, April 27, 2017. Paul Biya, who earlier indicated that he was personally going to perform the installation ritual will be absent during the Thursday 27 April event at […]
Former Governor Enow Abram Egbe has been named new Chairman of the Board of Directors at Elections Cameroon, ELECAM. The former Governor of Adamawa region replaces Dr Samuel Fonkam AZU’U who has held the position since the creation of ELECAM. Madam Amougou Nee Abena was named Vice president of the Board. Enow Abrams Egbe also […]
The Soviet novelist, Chingiz Aitmatov recounted a story in one of his articles written near the end of the failed Marxist movement in Soviet Union. In 1935, Stalin invited his trusted senior advisers and some media henchmen to a meeting with intent to make a point using the most evocative of methods. When everyone was […]
Former US President Barack Obama reappears in public for the first time since Donald Trump’s grip to power. Trump’s predecessor took part in a Monday roundtable discussion with the young people at the University of Chicago, where he avoided any political commentary or criticism of the new president. He started by jokingly asking, “What’s been going […]
Paul Biya appointed on Monday, a new Chairman of the Board of Directors of Camair-Co, the national airline. Louis Georges Njifendi Kouotou replaced Mefiro Oumarou putting an end to the infighting that rocked the implementation of the recovery plan of the company. The appointment of the new board chairman came after an extraordinary session of […]
It was in the strictest of privacy that the President of the Republic and the First Lady celebrated their 23rd anniversary on Sunday, 23 April 2017. The images published by the Presidency of the Republic showed the presidential couple and some members of their family around a cake specially made for the wedding beryl of […]
