Barcelona appoint Flick as new boss
Barcelona have appointed former Bayern Munich boss Hansi Flick as their new boss on a two-year contract.
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Pope Francis apologises for using homophobic slur
Pope Francis issued an extraordinary apology on Tuesday over his reported use of a gay slur in a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops last week. “The pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms and he extends his apologies to those who felt offended by the use of a term, reported by […]
FECAFOOT convenes emergency meeting after Eto’o-Brys clash
A meeting of the Cameroon Football Federation’s Emergency Committee will be held in the next few hours following a missed working session between president Samuel Eto’o and coach Marc Brys. In a press release following the turbulent session at Fecafoot, the Emergency Committee was convened to address the heated exchange between Samuel Eto’o and Marc […]
Etoudi and FECAFOOT: The death of high instructions!
The bruising fight between FECAFOOT’s President, Samuel Eto’o, and the Minister of Sports, Moelle Kombi, finally played out in public today with the minister’s technical adviser asked to leave FECAFOOT premises. The matter did not end there. The minister’s appointed coach was also given a beating and reminded that he had an interest in attending […]
USA: Cardinal Sean O’Malley ordains first Cameroonian priest
In the Archdiocese of Boston, of the Pope St. John Paul XXIII seminary, Archbishop, Sean Cardinal O’Malley ordained Rev John Tanyi Nquah Lebui, the first Cameroonian Priest in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. The historical monument with an imposing presence of 364 feet long, ninety feet high, with a seating capacity of 1,700, the […]
US: Tornadoes, storms kill at least 15
At least 15 people have been killed and hundreds of others injured in powerful storms that left a wide trail of destruction in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas in the central US. The latest deadly weather to strike the central US inflicted its worst damage in a region spanning from north of Dallas to the northwest […]
Reporters Without Borders files ICC case over journalists’ deaths in Gaza
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Monday it had filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court over Palestinian journalists killed or injured in Gaza. RSF said it was asking the ICC’s prosecutor to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the Israeli army against at least nine Palestinian reporters since December 15. The […]
Martinez Zogo affair: Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh worried
The investigation into the journalist’s murder is continuing to shake the upper echelons of the Cameroonian state. A note from a judicial expert to President Paul Biya accuses Ngoh Ngoh of having blocked investigation of the role played in the affair by himself and two government ministers. Source: Africa Intelligence
Bamenda: bar explosion kills 2, death toll could rise
At least two persons were killed late Saturday when a makeshift bomb exploded in a crowded bar in Bamenda, according to local and security sources. An army official said that the improvised explosive device detonated in a neighborhood just meters away from a police station. “People were gathered to watch an important final match when […]
Cameroon’s machine and equipment imports surge by CFA136bn in 2023
Cameroon’s imports of mechanical and electrical machines and equipment reached CFA656 billion in 2023, up CFA136 billion (26%) from the CFA520 billion spent in 2022. The figures were reported by the National Institute of Statistics (INS). The INS report on Cameroon’s foreign trade highlights that imports of these goods accounted for 13.2% of total import […]