South Sudan’s rebel leader and former first vice president Riek Machar has reportedly left for a neighboring country weeks after he fled the capital, Juba. An opposition spokesman on Thursday confirmed that Machar had left a day earlier to a “safe country within the region,” and was expected to hold a news conference on Friday. Machar’s spokesman James Gatdet […]
Two sisters aged 61 and 67 years respectively, were brutally murdered on the night of 30th to 31st of July 2016 in their home district of Emombo in Yaounde. The alleged murderers were young men of about 30 years. They were presented to the media on Wednesday the 17th of August 2016, during the reconstruction […]
In recent years, Cameroon has been rocked by the abduction phenomenon in the Far North and East Regions. The Kidnapping of Rev. Father Georges, a Roman Catholic priest and the Moulin-Fournier family in 2013. The hostage crisis that did involve a group of Chinese workers and the atrocities committed by rebels from the Central African […]
The Second class stool of Weh village is now vacant. The ruler of the Tikars, Munchi’s and Nbuti people of the Weh dynasty disappeared on August the 13th, 2016 at the Mbingo Hospital. The entire Weh family converged at the palace esplanade on Monday August 15th 2016 to pay their last respect to the late […]
Cameroon’s chances of obtaining a medal at the on-going Rio Olympic Games have been slimmed with the elimination of Rebecca Ndolo Muambo, wrestler in the women’s 48 kg category. Rebecca lose zero to four to her Bulgarian opponent, Elitsa Yankova today the 17th August 2016. Her elimination leaves Cameroon with only two athletes in the […]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has launched an investigation into allegations that the world body’s peacekeepers in South Sudan failed to properly protect the people attacked at a hotel compound in Juba in July. Ban was “concerned about allegations that UNMISS (the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan) did not respond appropriately to prevent this and […]
A number of senior Cameroon military officials have been summoned to the Special Criminal Court. They are suspected of embezzling more than one and a half billion FCFA. Prominent among those to be charged for illicit enrichment are Gendarmerie Colonel Ntamag Emile and eight of his associates. Cameroon Intelligence Report was reliably informed that the […]
The Cameroon government has signed a loan agreement worth 139 billion CFA Francs with Italy for the construction of the Olembe sports complex. The Minister of the Economy Planning and Regional Development, Louis Paul Motaze who signed the loan agreement on behalf of the government noted that the stadium is going to be a milestone […]
The former Delegate General for National Security, Pierre Minlo’o Medjo has passed away at the age of 86 years. Pierre Minlo’o Medjo died today Tuesday, August 16, 2016 at the National Social Insurance Hospital in Yaoundé. Prior to his appointment as boss of the Cameroon police force from 2000 to 2004, the late Divisional Commissioner […]
The Brazilian was predecessor to Sepp Blatter at world football’s governing body, serving from 1974 to 1998. He resigned as FIFA”s honorary president in April 2013 following an investigation into bribery allegations and was admitted to hospital the following year with a lung infection. He was an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member from 1963 until 2011, resigning because […]
