Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei has been elected the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran’s Assembly of Experts, a body of 88 clerics, on Sunday night officially appointed Mojtaba Khamenei, 56 years old, as the new Leader of the Islamic Revolution and the third Supreme Leader of […]
Three years after their creation, Cameroon’s three new universities of Bertoua, Ebolowa, and Garoua are in distress due to infrastructure delays, a lack of internet connectivity, insufficient staff, and a perilous study environment for students. Higher education and university authorities say they are preoccupied with infrastructure shortcomings that are affecting the quality of education at […]
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has blasted Washington’s reaction to President Masoud Pezeshkian’s extension of the hand of friendship to neighbors, saying that the gesture was almost immediately killed by US President Donald Trump. “President Pezeshkian’s openness to de-escalation within our region — provided that our neighbors’ airspace, territory, and waters are not used to […]
We, the Leaders of Southern Cameroons and Prisoners of Conscience and war, are following with profound interest, the ongoing dispute between the State Governments of Cross River and Akwa Ibom in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This dispute, primarily focused on the ownership of oil wells and other Marineassets between the two states within Nigeria’s […]
Cameroon has revised the internal rules governing primary schools in an effort to restore discipline and address new risks affecting students. The Ministry of Basic Education (Minedub) officially launched the nationwide rollout of the updated school regulations on March 4, 2026, in Yaoundé. The event was chaired by Vivian Asheri Kilo, secretary of state at […]
Cameroon is among the “seven peace and security priorities for Africa in 2026,” according to a new report by the International Crisis Group (ICG), which warns that the conflict in the country’s English-speaking regions could deepen without renewed diplomatic efforts. In its report, the organization says that without meaningful negotiations, fighting in the Northwest and […]
Iraq’s First Lady Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed has asked the US to stop treating Kurds as disposable proxies in the war against Iran, declaring, “We are not guns for hire.” She made the statement on the 35th anniversary of the 1991 Kurdish uprising against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime and amid a reported US-Israeli plot to […]
Cameroon plans to send more than 500 economic operators to the 139th Canton Fair in Guangzhou as businesses seek new trade deals and industrial equipment to support the country’s transformation agenda. The initiative was presented on 26 February in Douala during a press briefing organised by the China-Cameroon Business Association (CCBA), in partnership with the Chamber […]
In Cameroon’s violence-hit Northwest region, authorities have positioned the Ring Road project as more than a transport upgrade. The government has embedded the construction program in a broader social stabilization strategy that seeks to create economic prospects for young people and reduce their vulnerability to recruitment by armed separatist groups. In this context, 17 municipalities […]
The United Kingdom says it will end study visas for students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, and work visas for Afghans, amid a rise in anti-immigration sentiment in the country. The UK Home Office said in a statement on Tuesday that “an ’emergency brake’ on visas has been imposed for the first time on […]
