One of Cameroon’s greatest footballers of all times, Charles Toubé, died today Thursday, August 4, 2016 at the Douala Laquintinie hospital, age 58. A talented footballer in the 80s, Toube Charles’s football career began in a high school team in Abong-Mbang, in the East Region, where he played as a winger. He converted into a […]
A senior Iranian lawmaker says terrorism is backfiring on its supporters who are conspiring against the government in Syria. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, made the remark in a meeting with Syria’s Parliament Speaker Hadiyeh al-Abbas in Damascus on Wednesday, Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported. […]
US President Barack Obama says the new bombing campaign in Libya is critical to US national security interests, as the American military targeted Daesh positions in the North African country for a second day. The airstrikes were undertaken to help Libyan forces “finish the job” and drive the terrorists out of the troubled North African country, […]
The European Union has announced the disbursement of 32.7 billion FCFA to strengthen the Multinational Force established to combat the Nigerian Islamic sect, Boko Haram. In a Joint Communiqué signed by Federica Mogherini, the Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Neven Mimica (European Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development) and […]
US President Barack Obama has issued a sharp criticism of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, calling him “unfit” to be president. Obama made the comments on Tuesday during a White House news conference with Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, after Trump criticized an American Muslim family whose son was killed in Iraq. Obama also challenged Republican […]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration will respect the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning the border dispute between his country and Cameroon. “We will respect the conclusions of the committees to demarcate the border. We promise to implement the recommendations of the Cameroon-Nigeria Border Commission to provide security at […]
The Special Criminal Court has ordered Bernard Messengue Avom, former Minister of Public Works; Robert Nkili, former Minister of Transport; Bruno Bekolo Egbe, former Rector of the University of Douala and William Sollo, former Director of the Cameroon Water Utilities to appear again before state prosecutors next week. They were all at the court last […]
Crucial decisions were taken during a National Executive Committee (NEC) session of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) party in Bamenda on July 30, 2016 to move forward the reorganization of SDF party structures in some regions that have so far, suffered speed brakes. In effect, SDF Communications Secretary, Anembom Munjo revealed that NEC presided at […]
The government of Cameroon has secured fresh funding from the People’s Republic of China to spearhead development projects in the country and hopefully better peoples’ living conditions. Economy, Planning and Regional Development Minister, Louis Paul Motaze on July 28-29, 2016 in Beijing signed four different agreements to this effect with Chinese financiers. This was within […]
France has shut down about 20 mosques and prayer halls as part of the country’s fight against “radicalization,” the country’s interior minister says. Speaking after a meeting with leaders of the French Council of the Muslim Religion, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday that the mosques were closed down in various parts of the European country over the past eight […]
