Cameroon’s national football head coach Marc Brys on Monday blasted the team’s training camp preparations ahead of World Cup qualifiers against Cape Verde and Angola. The Indomitable Lions were scheduled to begin training, but Brys said the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) had not provided the required equipment. “We don’t have balls, we don’t have materials, […]
The Divisional Delegate of Sports and Physical Education was killed in an ambush by suspected Ambazonia fighters in Ndu in the North West region, local and military sources said on Sunday. Derick Fonye was killed on Saturday night, said an army official in the region who opted for anonymity. “He was driving along a hill […]
Customs officers at Douala International Airport, in Cameroon’s bustling economic hub, seized a consignment of 24 kg of cocaine from Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 30, 2024. The announcement came from the communications department of the General Directorate of Customs under the Ministry of Finance. The intercepted shipment is reported to be worth $2 million […]
A military gunboat belonging to the Rapid d’intervention Battalions, BIR, have capsized at Idabato high sea during an exchange of gunfire between government forces and the Black Marine. No casualties yet as at the time of this report.
Cameroon malariologist Rose Gana Fomban Leke has been honoured as one of five regional winners of the 2024 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards. The emeritus professor of immunology and parasitology at the University of Yaounde I in Cameroon, Leke received the award for the Africa and Arab States region on 28 May for […]
Senegal’s new President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Thursday began his first visit to Mali and Burkina Faso to strengthen ties with these two states which have quit regional bloc ECOWAS. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are all under productive military rule following coups. In January, the trio announced they were quitting The Economic Community of […]
Africa’s economy has shown resilience overall despite global conditions but growth needs to be in double digits to truly tackle poverty on the continent, the African Development Bank (AfDB) said on Thursday. The pan-African economic institution also emphasised the need to create more jobs and further industrialise, during a presentation on Africa’s economic outlook at […]
FECAFOOT President Samuel Eto’o will be meeting with President Paul Biya in the days ahead, a source at the Presidency of the Republic has hinted. According to the source in Yaoundé, Eto’o has been summoned to the Unity Palace following an ongoing crisis in Cameroonian football which began to intensify after the recent Africa Cup […]
Cameroon observed World Menstrual Hygiene Day Saturday with donors and health workers distributing reusable sanitary pads to several hundred poor girls displaced by terrorism and the country’s separatist crisis. Some of the girls said they were seeing sanitary pads for the first time. Also, sensitization teams are working to convince communities to stop stigmatizing girls […]
Belgian football technician Marc Brys has been sacked by the President of the Francophone dominated Cameroon Football Federation some few weeks after his controversial managerial appointment. Brys signed for Cameroon but tension between the Minister of Sports and the FECAFOOT boss Samuel Eto’o has brought an abrupt end to his spell as manager of the […]
