Besiktas have agreed a deal in principle to sign Samuel Eto’o, reports Goal. The Turkish champions are looking to sign a new striker after Mario Gomez, who scored 26 Super Lig goals last season while on loan from Fiorentina, opted against extending his stay at the Vodafone Arena. Besiktas have since turned their attention to Eto’o […]
The UN Security Council (UNSC) has voted to deploy a UN police force to restive Burundi, in its toughest measure aimed at helping end over a year of violence in the West African country. The council adopted a France-drafted resolution Friday authorizing the dispatch of up to 228 officers to the capital, Bujumbura, and throughout […]
Experts from 15 African countries are taking part in a Pan African Zone Conference on Social Insurance in Yaounde. Prime Minister Philemon Yang participated in the opening ceremony of the conference. During the three-day conclave, the forum will be discussing ways of reforming pension schemes. The Permanent Secretary of the organization, Noel Alain Mekulu Mvondo, said […]
Amadou Vamoulké, the former general manager of CRTV has been was arrested by plain cloth police officers at his home in Yaoundé, Cameroon Intelligence Report has learned. Sacked on June the 29th after spending 11 years at the head of CRTV, Amadou Vamoulké has been detained at the Kondengui Central prison in Yaounde. The former […]
All presidential resorts belonging to the Head of State President Biya located in the Adamawa Region have been abandoned. The villas were built by Mr Biya’s predecessor, the late Ahmadou Ahidjo and inaugurated in 1974. In the first villa located in the administrative district, in Ngaoundere, the courtyard of the presidential residence has been covered […]
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has formally accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for the president of the United States. The former first lady, senator and secretary of state is the first female presidential nominee of a major US political party. During her nomination speech on Thursday at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Clinton said […]
Irregularities often detected by the Audit Bench of the Supreme Court in the drafting of State accounts are being discussed at a two-day workshop in Yaounde for Accounting Officers of Public Administrative Establishments. The Secretary General in the Ministry of Finance, Gilbert Didier Edoa, opened the workshop yesterday, July 28, 2016, on behalf of his […]
Cooperation ties between Cameroon and Egypt will in the coming days witness a bolster as both nations prepare the seventh session of the Cameroon-Egypt Joint Committee which will hold in Cairo, Egypt. Sherif Salah Eldin Elleithy, the Ambassador of Egypt to Cameroon made the declaration during celebrations marking the 64th anniversary of the July 23, 1992 Revolution […]
Funeral rites for the deceased Nigerian coach Stephen Keshi began today with a requiem mass at St. Paul Catholic church in Benin City in Edo State. Present at the farewell ceremony were the parents and friends of the deceased including officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and former international football players. The remains of […]
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says his current visit to West Africa will open a new chapter in cooperation between the Islamic Republic and the African nations. He made the remarks during a meeting with Guinea Prime Minister Mamady Youla in the capital Conakry where he visited Wednesday as part of a four-nation tour along with a trade delegation. Zarif described relations […]
