300 dialysis patients staged a strike action in front of the Yaounde General Hospital this week. It was the second strike action in the country after that of Bamenda some months ago. The patients revealed that only 7 out of the 15 available haemodialysis machines were operational in the hospital. The two weekly sessions per […]
As much as has been said and written about the global refugee crisis, there is always more to add. There is need to raise more awareness of this unheralded phenomenon, with the hope that the effort might help press the action button in some corner of the world. The situation is getting out of control and […]
Tombi A Roko, the President of the Cameroon Football Federation is in Udine, a city in Italy. The boss of Cameroon’s FA has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Mayor of Udine. Cameroon Intelligence Report learned that the memorandum is to establish between the parties, collaborative relationships in the field of youth training and the […]
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has strongly condemned what it termed as “state-sponsored crackdown” on Shia Muslims attending commemorations of Ashura, which marks the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (PBUH), the third Shia imam and the grandson of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). The IMN, in a statement released on Thursday, announced that “the worst forms of state-sponsored […]
A series of new skirmishes involving the ex-Seleka fighters in the Central African Republic has claimed the lives of at least 30 people while leaving 57 others injured. The UN peacekeeping mission in CAR, known as MINUSCA, said Thursday that its troops had killed 12 former Seleka fighters in clashes that erupted a day earlier in the […]
The United Nations General Assembly has approved by acclamation Portugal’s former prime minister, Antonio Guterres, as the world body’s ninth secretary general. Guterres was appointed by the 193-member UN assembly to succeed Ban Ki-moon of South Korea on Thursday. The 67-year-old will take up the position on January 1, 2017, for a five-year term. “He […]
Cameroon joined the international community to commemorate the World Sight Day today the 13th of October 2016 under the theme, “Stronger Together”. The Minister of Public Health, Andre Mama Fouda chaired commemorative activities at the Yaounde Central Hospital. During the ceremony, the Minister called on NGO’s and other institutions dealing with the blind to continue […]
The Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group has released 21 of the schoolgirls abducted in 2014, official says. “It’s true. [The] ministry of information will release a statement on the issue later,” an unnamed Nigerian government official in the office of President Muhammadu Buhari was quoted as saying by AFP on Thursday. A local source was also […]
An Ivorian cyclist, Cisse Issiaka has won the first lap of the 16th edition of the Chantal Biya Intenational Cycling tour from Yaounde- Bafia. The winner covered a distance of 122km in 2 hours 52 minutes and 7 seconds He was closely followed in the second position by a Swiss born, Bussard Dimittri who covered […]
Transparency website WikiLeaks has released a fourth batch of emails from the campaign of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for its “October surprise,” in the run-up to the US 2016 presidential election. On Wednesday, the anti-secrecy website followed the promises made by its founder, Julian Assange, to keep releasing such emails up to Election Day on November […]
