Cameroon’s presidential race officially began on Saturday, with 12 candidates, including one woman, vying for the country’s highest office. The campaign will last for two weeks, culminating in the presidential election on Oct. 12. Incumbent President Paul Biya, leader of the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, is seeking to extend his 43-year rule by winning […]
As Cameroonians brace for the high stakes presidential election on October 12, 2025, the political terrain is as fractured as ever. Calls for a united opposition have intensified, especially among the growing number of citizens desperate for political change after decades of entrenched incumbency. At one time, all eyes turned to Professor Maurice Kamto, the […]
As campaigning starts on Saturday for Cameroon’s presidential election, the nation is puzzling over the whereabouts of the lead candidate: its 92-year-old leader, Paul Biya, the world’s oldest head of state. In power since 1982 and seeking an eighth term in office in the October 12 polls, Biya left the central African country on Sunday […]
Nicolas Sarkozy, once a dynamic and controversial leader who promised to transform France, has been sentenced to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy tied to illegal campaign funding from Libya. This marks a stunning fall for Sarkozy, who has faced numerous legal battles since leaving office in 2012 and now becomes the first French […]
The military tribunal in Yaoundé has been calling numerous witnesses to the stand in the high-profile murder trial of journalist Martinez Zogo, who was killed in January 2023 by an alleged hit squad from the state’s counter-espionage service, the Directorate General of External Research (DGRE). The Government Commissioner, Lieutenant Colonel Cerlin Belinga, presented a list […]
Cameroon has commissioned a new cement plant in Edéa, Littoral region, with an annual capacity of 1Mt. The facility, developed by Chinese investors under Central Africa Cement (CAC), was inaugurated on 19 September 2025, by Acting Minister of Mines, Industry and Technological Development, Fuh Calistus Gentry. The new plant is the second in Edéa, following […]
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a case related to taking millions of euros of illicit funds from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. The Paris criminal court acquitted him of all other charges, including passive corruption and illegal campaign financing. Sarkozy, who claims the case is […]
The leader of the Manyu Solidarity Group Prince Julian Ebai recently met with the Paramount ruler of the Bafaw Kingdom Nfon Ekoko Mukete in London and there was quite a lot to talk about. Cameroonian royals often meet up with each other, sometimes at big cultural festivals back home and abroad or formal meetings like […]
With weeks to go until an election that could extend the world’s oldest president’s 43 years in power, Cameroon‘s opposition is struggling. Its most popular figure has been barred from running, and the 11 candidates remaining are likely to divide the vote. At 92, Paul Biya has spent nearly half his years on earth as […]
The Cameroonian authorities must immediately release 36 opposition supporters arbitrarily detained for five years for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and put an end to arbitrary detention in the country, Amnesty International said on the fifth anniversary of their arrest. On 22 September 2020, over 500 people were arbitrarily arrested for participating in peaceful […]
