Several people have been killed in a shooting at a secondary school in the Austrian city of Graz, police say. Students and teachers are believed to be among the casualties after gunshots at the Dreierschützengasse high school. According to tabloid Kronen Zeitung eight people have been killed, but the number of fatalities has not been […]
Police have ended their two-day stakeout of an apartment block in which Cameroon’s main opposition leader Maurice Kamto had been staying after he returned from France, where he had held a political rally that inflamed the ruling CPDM party. On Sunday law enforcement officers blocked the 71-year-old from leaving the building in the main city […]
A Nigerian Catholic priest who recently served in the United States has been abducted by extremists along with other travellers in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, the church said. The Rev. Alphonsus Afina was kidnapped on June 1 near the northeastern town of Gwoza, close to the border with Cameroon, by the Islamic extremist group Boko […]
Cameroon’s main opposition leader Maurice Kamto says police have surrounded his home for the past two days since he returned from France, where he had held a political rally that inflamed the ruling CPDM party. On Sunday law enforcement officers blocked the 71-year-old from leaving his lodgings in the main city of Douala for a […]
Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) paid 20 billion CFA francs in employee salaries in 2024. This payment marks a significant milestone in the Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction and Development of the North-West and South-West Regions (PPRD/NOSO), a program aimed at rebuilding areas affected by the anglophone crisis. The figure was announced during the sixth session […]
Portugal beat neighbours Spain in a penalty shootout to settle a frantic final in Munich and win their second Nations League trophy. Cristiano Ronaldo pulled Portugal level at 2-2 in the 61st minute, but there was nothing else to separate the two sides when the referee signalled the end of normal time. Subbed off before […]
Rwanda says it is pulling out of a central African regional bloc after a diplomatic row over its involvement in the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country was supposed to take up the chairman role of the Economic Community of Central African States (Eccas), which rotates between its 11 […]
Five-time Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo said Saturday the individual honour should be awarded to a player who won the Champions League. Speaking ahead of Sunday’s Nations League final in Munich between Portugal and Spain, the veteran said “trophies” should determine who wins the Ballon d’Or. “In my opinion, whoever wins it should be on […]
The central African nation of Chad says it is suspending all visas to US citizens as a matter of “reciprocity”, after learning that it is one of a dozen countries whose nationals are banned from travelling to the US. “Chad has neither planes to offer nor billions of dollars to give, but Chad has its […]
The Trump administration gave notice in the Federal Register on Wednesday that it is withdrawing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Cameroonians in the United States, effective Aug. 4. That could mean deportation for thousands of Texas residents. Texas hosts the second-largest community in the U.S. of people from the West African nation of Cameroon. “For […]
