Clinical Germany thumped Scotland 5-1 in their Euro 2024 tournament opener on Friday with the host nation scoring three first-half goals and enjoying a man advantage after Ryan Porteous received a straight red card before the break. Florian Wirtz opened the scoring in the 10th minute when he connected with a cross that goalkeeper Angus […]
Manchester United will start a £50 million ($64 million) redevelopment of their creaking Carrington training headquarters next week as they look to transform it into a “world-class” facility. British architects Foster + Partners will lead a project that will refurbish all areas of the building to “support future success”, the Premier League club said in […]
Pope Francis has met with more than 100 comedians from across the world, including Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, at the Vatican in Rome. The Pope said comedians have the “power to spread serenity and smiles” in a world where people are immersed in “many social and personal emergencies”. “You unite people because […]
A record-breaking 120 million people have been forced to flee their homes by war, violence and persecution – the 12th year in a row the number has increased, the UN refugee agency said. The global displaced population is now equivalent to that of Japan, the agency said. New conflicts in Sudan and Gaza contributed to […]
Cameroon’s inflation rate averaged 6.3% between April 2023 and April 2024, according to a report on household consumer prices from the National Institute of Statistics (INS). This rate remains more than double the 3% tolerance threshold within the CEMAC. However, there was a decrease of over 1% from the 7.4% recorded in 2023. The INS […]
The Bank of Central African States (BEAC) has resumed liquidity injections into banks in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (Cemac), marking the first such operation since February 2023. The BEAC injected CFA 120 billion, per a statement released on June 11. As a reminder, the bank has decided to suspend injections as […]
One would have thought that following FIFA’s letter of May 6, 2024, urging Cameroon’s ministry of sports and FECAFOOT to comply with agreements they had signed, especially as the global soccer governing body had clearly stated in its letter that FECAFOOT was the body which had to appoint technical team members for the country’s national […]
Fon George Ngwashi Ndikum II, the Fon of the Akum Kingdom in the North West region of Cameroon has died. The Fon 89 was the leader of North West’s Akum ethnic group and an influential traditional ruler. The Fon ruled the Akum Kingdom popularly known as “Small London,” for 66 years. His Majesty Fon George […]
Celine Dion is determined to return to singing onstage despite suffering from a rare neurological condition — “even if I have to crawl,” she said in a candid new interview. In the sit-down with US network NBC, which will be released in full later Tuesday, Dion said that although she has been suffering from Stiff […]
James Lawson, the black civil rights activist who travelled to India to study non-violent protest and served as chief strategist to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, has died at the age of 95. Lawson, a Methodist minister, learned Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of civil disobedience and taught them to protesters opposing racial segregation in the US. […]
