The Cameroon-Chad pipeline generated CFAF12.12 billion for Cameroon between January and April 2023, according to a recent release from the CPSP, the pipeline’s management commission. This amount, which is 0.33% higher than the figure recorded during the same period in 2022, represents the royalty paid for transporting Chadian oil through the pipeline connecting to Kribi, […]
A passenger bus collided with a truck in Cameroon, killing at least 19 people, the government said Friday. The bus was headed to the southern town of Eseka when it lost control and struck a “heavy duty truck,” which was transporting sand, Transport Minister Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe said. The majority of people on […]
In the Directors’ Fortnight, which runs parallel to the main festival, Rosine Mbakam’s “Mambar Pierrette” painted an intimate portrait of a Cameroonian seamstress and single mother struggling to make ends meet against a backdrop of social hardship and the threat of floods. Pierrette Aboheu Njeuthat stars as the titular character, a mother of three who […]
Violence has surged in Nigeria following a brief lull for elections earlier in the year, serving as a cruel reminder of the significant security challenges faced by incoming President Bola Tinubu. Barely a week goes by in Africa’s most populous nation without attacks or kidnappings by criminals known as “bandits” in the northwest and centre, […]
A Russian missile on Friday morning struck a medical facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing one and injuring 23 including two children, officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video of smoke billowing from roofless buildings with blown-out windows. “There are 23 injured in Dnipro,” the head of the regional military […]
The Higher Education Ministry has been hit by many scandals over the last decades but none has been as big as the one that might take down the country’s higher education minister, Jacques Fame Ndongo, who is being described by his collaborators as a ‘man on a diet of sex.’ The minister’s office has become […]
The Ambazonia Interim Government vowed that Yaoundé’s recent massacre of Southern Cameroons Self Defense commanders and their family members in both the Northern and Southern Zones will be met with a matching response. Dr Patrick Ayuk, a special adviser to Vice President Dabney Yerima, made the comments in an interview with Cameroon Concord News on […]
Over the first three months of 2023, the economy shrank by 0.3 percent, the federal statistics agency Destatis said, downgrading an initial estimate of zero percent. Following a 0.5-percent contraction in the last three months of 2022, it was Germany’s second consecutive quarter of negative growth — the threshold for a “technical recession”. The slump […]
As patients lay at the Yaoundé Emergency Centre (CURY) unattended for five hours, over 150 nurses stormed the Ministry of Public Health on Monday morning at 7.30 a.m., demanding better working conditions they say they have been deprived of for nine years. On the placards they carried were inscribed demands such as “Mr. President, help” […]
Some applicants logging onto the dedicated portal for Cameroon’s biometric visas have been reporting glitches with the system which went live at the start of this month. The much-heralded platform was launched on May 1, but some users say they have faced difficulties using the system seamlessly. Biometric Update recently had a litany of emails […]
