Voting for Senate elections is underway in Cameroon, officials said Sunday. The voting, which began on Sunday morning in 198 polling stations in ten regions of the country, will continue until 6:00 p.m. local time. “The atmosphere is calm and everything is moving on smoothly,” Gabriel Bihina Effila, a municipal councilor who voted in the […]
The world of African cinema is in mourning with the disappearance of Alphonse Béni. The Cameroonian director and actor died at the age of 77 following illness on Sunday. Born in 1946 in Nkongsamba, he left behind a cinematographic heritage marked by diversity and quality. Alphonse Béni began his career in the 1970s as an […]
Newcastle United are among several Premier League clubs casting an eye over Lille’s 19-year-old wonderkid, Carlos Baleba who has been impressing in Ligue 1 this season. A report in 90mins credits Newcastle amongst the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal as potential destinations for LOSC Lille‘s ‘in-demand’ midfielder after he burst onto the scene […]
Some armed men attacked vehicles on Sunday, March 13, 2023 at 10pm along the Douala-Yaoundé road and eyewitnesses reported that there were some casualties. According to a Cameroon Concord News source whose car had been riddled with bullets, the armed men were all Francophones and their motive was not necessarily money. “The armed men are […]
Cameroon’s military says separatists in its North-West region have blocked roads and attacked military vehicles to disrupt Sunday’s Senate elections. Witnesses say several bodies were seen around the destroyed vehicles. The military has not confirmed any casualties and vowed to protect voting, despite the rebel blockade. Cameroonian government troops exchange fire with separatist fighters in […]
The man widely believed to have been the driver of the black Prado used to kill the financial crime radio host Martinez Zogo has been arrested in Yaoundé, Cameroon Intelligence Report has gathered from a well-placed source at the Secretariat for Defense. Our source in the nation’s capital hinted that the yet to be identified […]
Former England soccer captain Gary Lineker has been taken off air by the BBC after his comments on Britain’s migration policy sparked a furious row between the government and the corporation’s highest paid presenter. Lineker was told there has to be an agreed position on his use of social media before he can return, the […]
Thousands of women in Cameroon took to the streets on Wednesday, International Women’s Day, to protest the high cost of living. The government blames soaring food and energy prices on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Hundreds of Cameroonian women blow trumpets and whistles on the streets of the central African state’s capital Yaounde, shouting and decrying […]
Fr. Olivier Ntsa Ebode, a Catholic priest in the Lékié region of Cameroon, has been found dead. According to local press reports, he was murdered in the night between the 28th February and the 1st March, after being lured out of his house by men claiming that a relative of theirs was sick and wanted […]
Suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militants have killed over 40 people in twin attacks in eastern DR Congo, local officials said Thursday, in the latest bloodshed across the turbulent region. The ADF, which the Islamic State group claims as its central African affiliate, is one of the deadliest armed militias in eastern Congo, accused of […]
