This year’s Africa Cup of Nations featured 15 African-born coaches, leading some to conclude that local coaches had broken through racial and ethnic barriers to a level long reserved for Europeans. But do the success stories in a few nations mean that the coaching pathway has truly opened up for local coaches in Africa? While […]
Since 2016, for people in the restive English-speaking parts of Cameroon, each new year comes with the expectation of an end to the drawn-out separatist conflict. However, gratuitous violence rages on as the bloody war – which has so far killed over 5,000 people – continues unabated. Barely two weeks into 2022, some nine workers […]
The Humanitarian Coordinator in Cameroon, Mr. Matthias Z. Naab is deeply concerned by two more attacks against schools in the South-West region. On 8 and 11 February 2022, armed men from non-State armed groups burned down two schools, respectively the public primary school of Molyko in Buea, and Queen of Rosary Catholic College in Mamfe, […]
At least two civilians were killed when Boko Haram militants raided a village in the Far North region overnight into Tuesday, security and local sources said. The attack took place in Gaboua, a locality in Koza subdivision of the region when locals were asleep. The militants burgled the home of a respected community figure, killing […]
Burkina Faso strongman Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was inaugurated as president on Wednesday, just over three weeks after he led a coup to topple elected head of state Roch Marc Christian Kabore. In a televised ceremony, Damiba swore an oath before the country’s top constitutional body to “preserve, respect, uphold and defend the Constitution”, the […]
In Cameroon, the head of state is not required to pass mental health exams or psychological and psychiatric evaluations even after staying in power for 40 years. No Cameroonian psychologists and members of both the National Assembly and the so-called House of Senate have called for such mental health exams mindful of the fact that […]
The Ambazonia Interim Government has roundly condemned the brutal practices of French Cameroun army soldiers and pro Yaoundé Atanga Nji Boys against Southern Cameroonians in their homeland as war crimes, calling on the international community to put an end to the rising acts of the French Cameroun regime’s aggression. “The Southern Cameroons Department of Foreign […]
French President Emmanuel Macron this week will announce that French troops will be withdrawn from Mali and redeployed elsewhere in the Sahel following a breakdown in ties with the country’s military regime, concurring sources say. Several security sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Macron’s announcement to end the nine-year French mission in […]
Prince Andrew and his accuser Virginia Giuffre have settled a sexual assault lawsuit for an unspecified sum, according to a court filing Tuesday. In a letter sent to a New York judge on behalf of both parties, Giuffre’s lawyer David Boies wrote that they “have reached an out of court settlement,” without disclosing the financial […]
The maiden edition of Sp’Ash, a celebration of Cameroon’s amazing talent in fashion, sport, visual arts, music and entertainment, was held on February 5th 2022 at the prestigious Hilton Hotel in Yaoundé, as a prelude to the TotalEnergies AFCON 2021 Finals in Cameroon. A major highlight of this unique event which fused Sports and Fashion […]
