Africa is a continent rich in land, water, and energy resources, with a young and fast-growing population. Already the world’s youngest continent, it is expected to grow to nearly 2.5 billion people by 2050, 80% of them in Sub-Saharan Africa (UNPD, 2019). Levels of human and economic development differ widely across the continent, and […]
The talks on seeking possible solutions to the Southern Cameroons crisis which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of Cameroons have come to an end in Canada; a country which has been seeking to help find peaceful solutions to the fighting that has ruined the economies of Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions. The talks, which […]
Jihadists killed at least three soldiers and eight civilian auxiliaries in an attack Saturday in Burkina Faso’s volatile north, security sources told AFP. The soldiers, who were patrolling with the auxiliaries, were caught in an ambush in the district of Bouroum, said one source. Another source, confirming the attack, said the toll could rise, adding […]
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress kicked off in Beijing on Sunday, an event expected to confirm Xi Jinping as China’s first leader since Mao Zedong to serve three successive terms. Decisions unveiled at the congress – especially the fate of Prime Minister Li Keqiang – will indicate whether Xi plans to continue centralizing power […]
Pope Francis said the need to reform the United Nations was “more than obvious” after the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war exposed its limits, in an extract of his new book published Sunday. The Argentine pontiff said Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine highlighted the need to ensure the current multilateral structure — especially the […]
The Silicon Mountain and its entire community is set to organize the 4th Edition of Cameroon’s biggest Tech event; The Silicon Mountain Conference 2022, with the theme: “Local Solutions for a Sustainable Digital Economy”. The Silicon Mountain Conference 2022 is a three-day mega-conference scheduled for November 10th- 12th 2022 in Buea, the South-west Region of […]
A monkeypox outbreak has been confirmed in the town of Mbonge, health authorities in Cameroon say, but armed separatists are preventing workers from investigating suspected cases. Cameroon government officials say health workers have been deployed to the districts of Kumba and Mbonge to communicate to hundreds of civilians with suspected monkeypox infections to immediately isolate […]
Less than five months after Kylian Mbappe signed a new three-year contract to supposedly end the uncertainty about his future, Paris Saint-Germain are once again facing up to the possibility of losing the France superstar. The Qatar-owned club sit top of Ligue 1 and their Champions League group, but all is not well in the […]
Cameroon and Nigeria have requested to join the Cote d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative (CIGCI), a joint body spearheading the interests of the two countries in the international cocoa trade, its top official said on Wednesday. The initiative was set up after a 2018 declaration by Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world’s two largest cocoa producers, to […]
At least two vendors of human parts, Raji Silver and Nodji Kodji, have been arrested with two human skulls and human bones in Adamawa state, SaharaReporters can report. The police also arrested one Dauda Yakubu and a woman whose name was not disclosed, suspected to be buyers of human parts. Operatives of the Adamawa State […]
