Cameroon’s economic growth was revised down to 3.4% for 2022, reflecting the impact of the security crises in the Anglophone regions and the Far North, inflationary pressure, global supply chain disruptions and tight financial conditions. In 2023, GDP growth is expected to recover somewhat to 4.3%, mainly driven by LNG and mining production. Impact Cameroon […]
A European Union ban on seafood from Cameroon is prompting local fleets to look toward China for investment, according to Edwin Ngwafor, who is the director of Timezone Marine Ventures, a Yaoundé-based firm with a permit for 40 vessels. Ngwafor, who is also the deputy managing partner at a Cameroonian law firm, wants to attract […]
The Ambazonia Interim Government has strongly denounced the killing of another English speaking journalist in Bamenda, saying such targeted killings will never help the Biya French Cameroun regime advance its fiendish plots. Vice President Dabney Yerima in a statement released Monday, announced that the heinous crime of assassinating journalist Anye Nde Nsoh, in Bamenda, the […]
Manchester United’s season is at risk of imploding in spectacular style after they appeared to have turned the corner in Erik ten Hag’s first campaign as manager. The Red Devils, already with the League Cup in the bag and through to the FA Cup final, were hot favourites to secure a top-four Premier League place […]
Ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia between Sudan’s warring generals have yielded “no major progress” so far, a Saudi official told AFP on Monday, dampening hopes for a quick end to the fighting. Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy turned rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who heads the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), sent […]
A journalist has been shot dead in Bamenda the chief city in the North West region. It’s the third killing of a journalist in Cameroon this year. The other two journalists killed in recent months died in the nation’s capital, Yaoundé. Anye Nde Nsoh was the North West Bureau Chief of The Advocate Newspaper and […]
A man went on a rampage at a Texas outlet mall on Saturday, shooting dead eight people and wounding several others before he was killed by a police officer at the busy shopping complex. Video footage circulating online showed the shooter getting out of a sedan in the mall’s parking lot before opening fire on […]
Leaders in the United States and Europe sent congratulations to Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla on their coronation on Saturday, while China called for “cooperation” and “peace”. US hails ‘enduring friendship’ US President Joe Biden, whose country was represented at the lavish ceremony in London by First Lady Jill Biden, paid tribute to […]
The Coronation was nothing if not international. About half of all the world’s leaders were there – 90 heads of state in all, as well as 14 prime ministers from countries where the King is still their monarch. Servicemen and women from 33 Commonwealth countries took part in the procession. Kings and queens from Europe […]
Two people have been killed in Boko Haram raids in Cameroon’s Far North region, local media and security sources said Friday. Heavily armed militants of the terrorist group Boko Haram raided Zize village in the Kolofata subdivision of the region Thursday night but were repulsed by the Cameroon army, according to a military official in […]
