Cameroonian football authorities and Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Friday signed a framework agreement that authorizes the Central African nation to organize the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) next year. The framework agreement secures host rights for Cameroon and also allows the country to use the working handbook of CAF to organize the football […]
A military tribunal in Cameroon has sentenced four people to death, in a trial marked by procedural irregularities, for an attack on a school in Kumba, the South-West region, one year ago. The attack killed seven children and injured at least 13 others. The 12 defendants, on trial before the Buea military court since December […]
Cameroon will inoculate all personnel on state payroll against COVID-19 next month as part of its nationwide vaccination program, a government minister has said. The civil servants will be vaccinated from Nov. 6 to 30, Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reform Joseph Le said Thursday. “The preservation of the health of personnel at the […]
At least eight civilians have been killed in military raids in Wum, Menchum Division in the North West region, local and security sources said Wednesday. The raids in Wum, the chief town in Menchum, came after Ambazonia Revolutionary Guards killed a government soldier who was on a night patrol in the area, according to a […]
After five days of searching for his imprisoned clients, lawyer Nicodemus Amungwa stood up in a court in Cameroon this week to reveal the strange truth: The prisoners had vanished. Mr. Amungwa had hunted for them everywhere, shuttling from office to office in the maze of military and judicial authorities that might be holding the […]
Catholic bishops in Cameroon have warned of spiraling violence in their country’s troubled Anglophone regions and urged law enforcers and local residents to show “greater responsibility.” “The population can no longer take it — it is time to stop this spiral,” Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda told Fides, news agency of the Congregation for […]
Some youths fighting for self-rule in southwest Cameroon have reportedly stepped up their agitation. They are also reported to be screening, blocking both Cameroonians and Nigerians travelling into and out of the country as well as shooting since last week in borderline communities. A handful of Cameroonians residing in Calabar, the Cross River State capital, […]
The Ambazonia Interim Government (IG) has condemned the continued detention of President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe and his top aides in Yaounde, stressing that all French Cameroun anti Southern Cameroons actions will not deter the quest for independence and Ambazonian outright rejection of the union with French Cameroun. “The Southern Cameroons Interim Government is running out […]
President Joe Biden on Thursday said the United States would come to the defense of Taiwan if the island were attacked by China, which considers it part of its territory. “Yes,” he responded when asked in a CNN town hall about defending Taiwan. “We have a commitment to that.” Biden’s statement was at odds with […]
Metropolitan Archbishop Andrew Nkea has fired back at Cameroon Concord News Group over recent editorial comments on the role of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Archbishop Andrew Nkea reportedly read the editorial and released a document on Thursday to Cameroon Concord News and in a short statement blamed poor media reporting for stigmatising the Cameroonian […]
