Captain Ibrahim Traore was appointed as president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday, according to an official statement, after the West African country’s second coup in less than nine months. The impoverished Sahel nation plunged into renewed turmoil at the weekend when Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba — who had seized power in January — was toppled […]
Four Cameroon government army soldiers were killed in an attack by Ambazonia fighters on Tuesday in Boyo constituency in the North West region, a resident and two officials hinted Cameroon Intelligence Report. The office of the Francophone governor in Bamenda said today that Cameroon government troops had repelled an assault on the outskirts of Boyo. […]
Loretta Lynn, who died Tuesday at 90 years old, was a standard-bearer of country music and its most decorated female artist ever. The self-taught musician proved a vast influence over her six decades in the business, and news of her passing triggered an outpouring of praise and condolences from her fellow musicians. Here is a […]
In Cameroon, thousands of people are marching to call for peace in the country’s separatist conflict. The daily peace marches, which began on Friday and are slated to continue through Tuesday, come on the third anniversary of talks designed to end the fighting. Marchers say authorities need to do more to return peace to the […]
Father Humphrey Tatah Mbuy, the head of the communications department of the bishops’ conference, told a local television station on Oct. 2 that “when money is concerned, it is very difficult to detach a person from his source of income, even if that source is human blood.” Cameroon is 80 percent French-speaking and 20 percent […]
Several dozen protestors waving Russian flags rallied in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday as West African delegates arrived on a fact-finding mission following the country’s second coup in less than nine months. Demonstrators chanted support for Russia, called on France to leave the country and warned ECOWAS — the Economic Community of West African […]
One of President Biya numerous cabinet ministers Madam Celetine Kecha has named Yaoundé V as Cameroon’s best and cleanest district on a CPDM government 2022 list. Garoua 2, Bertoua 1, Baffoussam 2 and Nkongsamba all made it on the 2022 list with the top spot accorded to Yaoundé V. The results are made possible thanks […]
Former Ambazonia fighters who have surrendered to the Biya Francophone government and are kept at a DDR centre in Buea are protesting their long stay and unfulfilled promises from the Yaoundé authorities. The protesting ex- Southern Cameroons fighters are those kept within the Buea metropolis. This protest, according to Cameroon Concord News sources is the […]
The pro French Cameroun mayor of Kumbo Dr Mborong Venaslus has shut down the popular Mbveh market, citing security reasons. Cameroon Concord News understands the closure is part of an anti Southern Cameroons strategy being teleguided from Yaoundé in a bid to suffocate Ambazonia fighters operating in Bui County. Mbveh is one of the […]
Thousands of Southern Cameroonians have gathered in several countries in Europe, Asia and North America to condemn the war in British Southern Cameroons and to celebrate the proclamation of the independence of the Ambazonia homeland by President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe. Southern Cameroonians took to the streets in Ground Zero and in the diaspora on October […]
