The number of Ukrainian soldiers killed on the battlefield in the four years of war with Russia is 55,000, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Zelensky announced the figure in an interview with France 2 TV on Wednesday. Additionally, a large number of people are considered officially missing, he said. While both Kyiv and Moscow have […]
Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea have reached agreement on the unitization of the cross-border Yoyo–Yolanda gas field, a key step toward joint development of reserves estimated at 2,500 billion cubic feet of natural gas. Cameroon’s acting minister of mines, industry, and technological development, Fuh Calistus Gentry, has been leading an official mission to Equatorial Guinea since […]
Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said her ex-husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, being named in new files relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein dredged up “painful times in my marriage”. She told an NPR podcast she feels “unbelievable sadness” about the Epstein allegations and that the people named in the records, including […]
Cameroon’s National Refining Company (SONARA) undertook a strategic mission to Lagos, Nigeria, from 20 to 23 January 2026, as part of a benchmarking initiative with the Dangote Refinery focused on the exchange of technical and commercial best practices related to the PARRAS 24 project. The delegation was led by SONARA’s Director-General, El Hadj Bako Harouna, […]
President Paul Biya signed a decree on January 29, ratifying a mutual visa exemption agreement with Algeria for holders of diplomatic and service passports. The agreement was signed on December 21, 2024, in Algiers. Under the deal, eligible passport holders from both countries can now enter the other without a prior visa. With this ratification, […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Cameroonian authorities to immediately release journalist Brand Kamga, who was arrested on January 19 and charged with attempting to abduct the child of a woman he was investigating. Kamga, editor of the online channel Naja TV, phoned and met with the plaintiff, Annette Josiane Wandji Njikeu, to investigate […]
Closed in 2017 due to terrorist threats and heightened security requirements, the underground parking facility at Douala International Airport is operational again. The infrastructure reopened on January 21 this year with the first users already parking their vehicles. The reopening follows six years of renovation work aimed at restoring the site to international standards for […]
Iran is prepared for both war and negotiations but will not accept imposed terms, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said amid continued Washington’s military threats against Tehran. “Iran is ready to enter nuclear negotiations if they are conducted from an equal position, based on mutual interests and mutual respect,” Araghchi said on Friday in a joint […]
The United Nations is at risk of “imminent financial collapse” due to member states not paying their fees, the body’s head has warned. António Guterres said the UN faced a financial crisis which was “deepening, threatening programme delivery”, and that money could run out by July. He wrote in a letter to ambassadors that all […]
Norwegian courts extended the pretrial detention of Ayaba Cho Lucas by eight weeks in December 2025, pushing the deadline to Feb. 9, 2026. Authorities arrested the Cameroonian-born separatist leader in Oslo in September 2024. The decision places Ayaba Cho into his second consecutive year of provisional detention following a series of extensions. Ayaba Cho Lucas, […]
