Three men died Sunday in an assault rifle attack in the French port city of Marseille, which has seen a surge of drug-related gang murders in recent months, police said. The three were part of a group of five men in their 20s who left a nightclub shortly after 5:00 am (0300 GMT) and were […]
Air strikes hit outer areas of the Sudanese capital Khartoum overnight and on Saturday morning, as fighting that has trapped civilians in a humanitarian crisis and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week. The fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has led to a collapse in law and […]
The recent announcement by the attention-seeking Fai Yengo Francis that 18 Ambazonia fighters have surrender to Cameroon government forces not only failed to advance the sinister goals of the Biya French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé but laid bare deep divisions and dissensions in the entire Biya cabinet. It was evident when Etoudi ordered the arrest […]
More than 100 people in central Nigeria have died in several days of intercommunal violence that have destroyed hundreds of homes and caused thousands to flee, local officials said on Friday. The clashes between cattle herders and farming communities in Plateau State are the worst in years in a region that has long struggled with […]
Energy provider Eneo Cameroon has warned users that it would implement a planned power cut across most areas of Yaoundé 06:30-18:30 May 21. The interruption is to allow technicians to undertake improvements to the electricity network. Details on the affected areas, duration of power cuts were not made public. Traffic disruptions are possible in affected […]
Officials in Cameroon have shut down markets in an attempt to stop a wave of cholera infections spreading through all 10 regions of the central African state. The government says more than 20,000 people have been infected, but the figures may be higher as a majority of the country’s 26 million people do not go […]
According to the Ministry of the Economy’s report, Cameroonian economic operators spent CFA23.6 billion on imported secondhand clothing during the first 10 months of 2022. This represents a decline of 16.4% compared to the corresponding period in the previous year. The amount spent between January and October 2022 allowed the acquisition of 48,191 tons of […]
After Philadelphia 76ers centre Joel Embiid finally achieved his dream of becoming the NBA’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) earlier this month, he said he wanted to inspire people across his native Cameroon and the wider continent. “I have always felt like I was a role model, especially to my Cameroonian and African people,” he told […]
World leaders landed Thursday for a Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with Russia’s war in Ukraine expected to be high on the agenda. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida kicked off his summit diplomacy by meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden after his arrival at a […]
Sierra Leone’s president expressed hope that a new African mediation mission would help end Russia’s war in Ukraine which has hit hard among the “poorest of the poor” around the world. Julius Maada Bio told AFP the war had wreaked havoc in his country and other places. “We are all suffering as a result of […]
