Alpha Conde won Guinea’s disputed presidential poll, the national electoral authority said Saturday, setting the stage for a controversial third term. Announcing provisional results, electoral authority president Kabinet Cisse said that Conde, 82, had won 59.49 percent of the votes in the October 18 election. His main opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo, — at the forefront […]
In March of 1971, the People’s Republic of China and Cameroon established diplomatic relations. The commencement of relations was mutually beneficial to both countries. China pledged to cease its support for the Union of the People’s Congress (UPC), a Marxist guerrilla group that had been waging an insurgency against the government of Cameroon. Cameroon would […]
Gunmen stormed a school in Cameroon on Saturday and opened fire indiscriminately, killing at least six children and wounding about eight more in a region where separatist insurgents operate, officials and parents said. Arriving on motorbikes and in civilian clothes, the attackers hit the school around midday in the city of Kumba in South West […]
On the 14th of October 2020, an airplane carrying onboard over 100 English speaking Cameroonians from the United States landed at the Douala International Airport in French Cameroun into the waiting hands of a French Cameroun security squad stationed at the airport. Their fate is now a mystery. Nations are bound by the principle of […]
Democrat Joe Biden said Friday that if elected president he would mandate coronavirus vaccines be free for all Americans, part of a national strategy to “get ahead of this virus.” “Once we have a safe and effective vaccine, it has to be free to everyone — whether or not you’re insured,” Biden said in a […]
Cameroon customs have seized 626 kg of smuggled ivory, amounting to 118 elephant tusks during an operation in Ambam, a subdivision in South region, officials said on Thursday. The recovery indicated, about 59 elephants had been killed amid reports the smuggler intended to sell the tusks to an international buyer. State media, Cameroon Radio Television […]
Earlier this week (Oct. 19) in Cameroon, president Paul Biya ordered the deferment of the collection, by digital means, of custom duties and taxes on imported phones and other electronic devices. A new automated system for the collection had been scheduled to go operational on Oct. 15. But the move sparked widespread outrage, especially online […]
Witnesses say Cameroon police have chased and beaten at least 200 opposition supporters outside the home of opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who has been under de facto house arrest for over a month. Anti-riot police were deployed to Kamto’s home this week to contain crowds of supporters demanding he be released. Police blocked Kamto from […]
If you thought ICE detention centers couldn’t get any worse, think again. In Mississippi, US immigration staff allegedly tortured Cameroonian asylum seekers until they signed their deportation documents. Cameroonians are seeking refuge outside of their country due to Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis, which has been occurring since October of 2016. According to the Central Africa branch […]
Politician and professor Pascal Charlemagne Messanga Nyamding recently floated the claim that his own ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM) party is controlled by homosexuals. He made that charge in the World News Cameroon newspaper despite the fact that the CPDM is the party of the country’s revered longtime president, His Excellency Paul Biya. Messanga […]
