Ahead of the next presidential election scheduled for October 2025, Cameroonian opposition leaders have been calling for unity. Célestin Bedzigui, president of the Parti de l’Alliance libérale (PAL), urged a “consensual candidacy” for the opposition during the second ordinary elective congress of the Parti camerounais pour la réconciliation nationale (PCRN), held May 23–24 in Nkolafamba, Centre region. […]
France’s First Lady has been caught on video slapping French President Emmanuel Macron in the face upon their arrival at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam. Numerous videos of the incident, which went viral over the weekend, show Brigitte Macron pushing the French president in the face as the hatch opens. Macron then pauses, […]
Ngabi Dora Tue, consumed by grief, was barely able to stand on her own. The coffin of her husband, Johnson Mabia, sat amid a crowd of stricken mourners in Limbe in Cameroon’s South-West region – an area that had witnessed scenes like this many times before. While on a work trip, Johnson – an English-speaking […]
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has claimed “there are discussions” over Cristiano Ronaldo playing at the Club World Cup this summer. Ronaldo’s club, Al-Nassr of the Saudi Pro League, failed to qualify for the expanded 32-team tournament in the United States. But Infantino says the 40-year-old Portugal forward, who is out of contract this summer, could […]
Joseph Kabila, the ex-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has lashed out at the government of his successor – calling it a “dictatorship”. The 53-year-old made a 45-minute speech live on YouTube on Friday evening from an unspecified location a day after the Senate lifted his immunity from prosecution. DR Congo’s authorities intend to […]
The 2025 Retreat for members of the Catholic Women Association (CWA) in Europe that started on Friday, May 23 in the beautiful city of Wuppertal in the Nordrhein Westphalia region drew an inspiring assembly of devout women, united in faith and purpose, under the leadership of their respective branch executives. The gathering is skillfully being […]
Elections Cameroon (Elecam) rejected calls from the Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon (MRC) and the United Party for Social Renovation (PURS) to hand over election management to an outside group. Elecam signed a CFA3 billion technical assistance deal with the United Nations but insisted it will keep full control. Enow Abrams Egbe, Chairman of […]
Douala police seized 232 counterfeit €100 notes, all bearing the same serial number, on May 13, 2025. The Nylon gendarmerie brigade confiscated the fake bills from two women in the Boko district. The sum was around €23,200 (around CFA15.2 million). One of the women had returned from France on May 6 and hid the counterfeit […]
Cameroon’s finance minister has been authorised to raise up to 200 billion CFA francs ($348 million) from international financial markets to shore up government cash flows for fiscal year 2025, according to a presidential decree. Kelly Mua Kingsly, Head of Finance Operations of the State at Cameroon’s Ministry of Finance, told Reuters on Wednesday that […]
Two Israeli embassy staff have been shot dead leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC, officials say. Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky were a couple and “in the prime of their lives” before they were killed, Israel’s embassy in the US says. The suspect has been detained and identified by […]
