When Agbor Clarisse Enoetie left her University hostel in Kumasi to Accra to attend a music concert, her mates knew it was business as usual. She reportedly disappeared on her way back to Kumasi. Her family in Cameroon placed their faith in the Ghanaian police to find her. An investigation was opened and later it […]
Jean Paul Zé Bella from the Zangalewa group passed away on Sunday, January 15, 2023. According to reports, Zangalewa’s group’s founder and leader, who is well known for the hit song “Zamina Mina Mina,” passed away from lung cancer. He was 71 years old. Zé Bella died in the military hospital in Yaoundé, the nation’s […]
The Cameroonian Customs Administration (DGD) is expecting the newly-introduced cocoa beans export tax to generate between CFA20 billion and CFA25 billion this year. “The export of raw cocoa beans is subject to an autonomous exit duty at a rate of 10% of the FOB value. This rate is 2% for cocoa beans exported to industrial […]
Quebec provincial police say they are investigating the death last week of a health-care worker from Cameroon as a homicide. The body of Nadine Flora Alinanyinyi, 34, was found Thursday in her apartment in Mont-St-Hilaire, Que., about 40 kilometres east of Montreal. A two-month-old baby was found unharmed inside the apartment. Alinanyinyi had been recruited […]
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Cavaye Djibril shocked the nation when he made a complaint recently at the Tokombéré gendarmerie post how some thieves broke into his home and stole huge sums of money. Cameroon Concord News understands the President of the National Assembly made the matter public on Wednesday, January 11, 2023 and […]
Italy’s Carabinieri police have arrested Matteo Messina Denaro, the country’s most wanted mafia boss, local media reported on Monday. Messina Denaro, 60, is alleged to be a boss of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia and has been on the run since 1993. He was detained at a private clinic in Palermo, where he was undergoing […]
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French abbreviation MSF, welcomed Cameroon’s release of five members of its staff detained for a year on charges of helping separatists. MSF maintains it helps anyone who needs medical care and says it will only resume work in separatist areas with government security guarantees. The group this week welcomed […]
There is a general belief that things are getting better in the country’s two English-speaking regions as some calm has returned but it is obvious that it will take time for genuine and sustainable peace to return to the two restless regions. The new-found peace may still be hiding some dangers and it will not […]
Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis Presley, died on Thursday after being rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital suffering from cardiac arrest, according to media reports. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” her […]
Life could be challenging in rural Cameroon, especially in conflict-hit Southwest, but many people are seeking ways to overcome the challenges and people in Muyuka in the Southwest region are no exception and they are using sand mining to eke out a livelihood. Sand mining is still a major source of livelihood to many youths […]
