As many as 20 percent of anti-government fighters captured and held by Cameroon are women, according to the body trying to reintegrate them into society. Cameroon has announced it has a five-year project aimed at reintegrating former fighters from the Boko Haram and Anglophone insurgencies back into society. It will be based on strategies that […]
Warning that democracy itself is in peril, President Joe Biden called on Americans Wednesday night to use their ballots in next week’s midterm elections to stand up against lies, violence and dangerous “ultra MAGA” election disruptors who are trying to “succeed where they failed” in subverting the 2020 elections. This is no time to stand […]
Southern Cameroonians both in Ground Zero and in the diaspora deeply distrust a majority of the frontline leaders particularly those based in the USA, and this can be linked to why today, most anti Yaoundé actions are demonstrated through what is termed as individual acts of bravery from the likes of General No Pity. With […]
Pope Francis, leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, flies Thursday to the Gulf state of Bahrain to foster ties with Islam in a voyage overshadowed by criticism of human rights abuses. The second voyage by a pope to the Arabian Peninsula after Francis’ 2019 trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is similarly aimed […]
Qatar authorities said Wednesday they have seized 144 counterfeit World Cup trophies, the latest raid on fakes hitting the market ahead of the football tournament that starts later this month. The interior ministry said officers launched an operation “acting on a piece of information about a website that promotes the sale of cups that mimic […]
The land borders of Equatorial Guinea have dawned Tuesday with numerous police controls on the first day of closure after the government of the current president, Teodoro Obiang, announced this decision to avoid “the infiltration of groups” in the face of the presidential campaign, which begins on Thursday. In view of this indefinite closure, of […]
Cameroon’s debt recovery company SRC announced it is implementing a strategy to recover CFA33.999 billion in bad debts from the Union bank of Cameroon (UBC). This amount, we learn, is the cumulative debt of 480 debtors whose identities are still not disclosed. The move was instigated by the government after taking control of UBC in […]
An Australian mining company has warned it may bring an expropriation claim against Cameroon after the state granted rights to a multibillion-dollar iron ore project to a rival investor – as an ICC panel is formed to hear claims already filed. Source: Global arbitration review
Authorities in Equatorial Guinea have deported several hundreds of Cameroonians, calling them economic migrants, even as they say job-seeking Nigerians invade their country to harass their citizens, commit thievery and armed banditry. Nouhou Bello, the most senior Cameroon government official in Ocean, the administrative unit where Campo is located, on Monday said President Paul Biya […]
President Paul Biya of Cameroon has authorised the release of 125 million FCFA (about US$250,000) to be used for the repatriation of an estimated 630 Cameroonians who are being forcefully expelled from Equatorial Guinea. The presidential intervention follows forceful and sometimes brutal expulsion of Cameroonians by the Equato-Guinean authorities which began on Oct 20. The […]
