Tens of thousands thronged a central Budapest square on Sunday for Pope Francis’ open-air mass on his third and final day in Hungary in a visit dominated by the war in neighbouring Ukraine. The 86-year-old Argentine pontiff is holding the mass at 9:30 am (0730 GMT) in Kossuth Lajos Square, behind the parliament located on […]
Warplanes on bombing raids drew heavy anti-aircraft fire over Khartoum on Saturday as fierce fighting between Sudan’s army and paramilitaries entered a third week, despite a renewed truce. Sudan has plunged into chaos and lawlessness since the fighting erupted on April 15 between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his number two […]
Five Cameroon nationals are at large on the Caribbean Island after escaping from a detention facility where 14 were being held. Initially, nine of the nationals had escaped. The Ministry of National Security in a statement, provided a timeline of the incident. On April 26, 2023, nine (9) of the fourteen (14) Cameroon nationals escaped […]
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya recently signed a decree empowering the Minister of Economy to get a loan of $15 million (CFA9.2 billion) from the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC). The loan has been in the pipeline with this member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) since 2021 to finance raw material acquisitions for the […]
Fighting raged in Sudan on Friday, despite rival forces agreeing to extend a truce aimed to stem nearly two weeks of warfare that has killed hundreds and caused widespread destruction. In the war-ravaged western Darfur region, at least 74 people were killed in just two days of bitter urban battles that broke out this week […]
Jerry Springer, the onetime mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show featured a three-ring circus of dysfunctional families willing to bare all on weekday afternoons including brawls, obscenities and blurred images of nudity, died Thursday at 79. At its peak, “The Jerry Springer Show” was a ratings powerhouse and a U.S. cultural pariah, synonymous […]
A Yaoundé judge rejected a request for provisional release submitted by the CEO of the press group Anecdote, detained at the Kondengui Maximum Security Prison in Yaoundé over the Martinez Zogo affair. Judge Gilbert Schlick ruled that even though the disgraced Francophone business guru was willing to double his proposed security, the risk of interfering […]
Cameroon and Chad have agreed to resolve their dispute over assets belonging to a multinational oil giant, Exxon Mobil, an official said Wednesday. Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, a Cameroonian presidential official, announced this after a meeting with Chad’s transitional president, Mahamat Idriss Deby, in the capital N’Djamena, according to Chad Information Agency. The centuries-old relations between […]
Although Cameroon has multiple times demonstrated its creditworthiness on the Beac public securities market, the country still finds it difficult to raise funds on the market. The Cameroonian Treasury launched yesterday an operation to raise CFA45 billion on the Beac market: CFA20 billion through the issuance of 26-week fungible treasury bills (BTAs) and CFA25 billion […]
Cameroon’s Minister of State and Secretary General at the Presidency of the Republic Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh on Wednesday departed to N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, to meet President of Chad’s Transitional Military Council Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, Cameroon presidency said in a statement. The statement said Ngoh was a “special envoy” of President Paul Biya. […]
