No Choupo-Moting as Cameroon invite 24 players for Japan friendly The 31-year-old captain is a notable omission in Toni Conceicao’s final selection for their next international outing in the Netherlands Former Paris Saint-Germain forward Eric Choupo-Moting has not been invited for Cameroon’s friendly match against Japan on October 9. Choupo-Moting who is yet to find […]
Cameroonian women have been waiting for over six months, according to This Is Lebanon. After the terrifying explosion on August 4th, Cameroonian women began to protest at their Consulate in Dbayeh, north of Beirut. They are accusing the consulate of intentionally blocking the repatriation process of Cameroonian women stranded in Lebanon. According to the activist […]
A 25-year-old Cameroonian man has been sentenced to half a year in prison after being caught with someone else’s French passport. The Germany-based man was caught trying to travel to the UK, after being informed that it would be easier to do so from Malta than Germany. He will be deported after serving jail time. […]
An ecumenical statement has been released by UK Church leaders on the situation in Southern Cameroons. The Bishops of Southwark and Chichester have joined with other church leaders in a joint statement on the genocide going on in Southern Cameroons. Bishops Christopher Chessun and Martin Warner, together with senior Methodist and Roman Catholic leaders, have […]
As Cameroonians began to fall sick from the novel coronavirus, President Paul Biya made a plea for public solidarity to help the government support a healthcare system already collapsing under the weight of multiple security crises affecting the country. Dozens of people and companies immediately poured money into a fund hastily created by the president. […]
Cameroon’s journalism association has called on authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalists detained while covering anti-government protests this week. Police detained at least eight journalists covering Tuesday’s protests, searched the homes of four of them, and seized or destroyed their equipment. At least one journalist was still in custody Thursday. Tah Javis Mai, a […]
Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), the electoral body in Cameroon, says about 10 political parties have provided required documents for the regional elections on December 6, 2020. Erik Essousse, ELECAM Director General, made the disclosure at a press conference on Wednesday in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde. He said about ten political parties would take part in the December […]
On September 22, hundreds of citizens in Cameroon’s Anglophone region took part in an organized anti-government protest. But the numerous opposition parties are under scrutiny for lacking clear leadership or a strategy. Cameroon’s opposition parties have much in common with one another. They all agree that the political landscape is in dire need of change […]
A powerful Vatican cardinal caught up in a real estate scandal resigned suddenly on Thursday and gave up his right to take part in an eventual conclave to elect a pope, in one of the most mysterious episodes to hit the Holy See in years. A brief statement, issued unusually in the evening, said that […]
Ivory Coast’s Constitutional Court ruled last week that only four out of 44 presidential hopefuls would be allowed to run in the country’s presidential election. Because they face criminal sentences, ex-President Laurent Gbagbo and former rebel leader Guillaume Soro, both giants of Ivorian politics, were among those barred from running. Most of the others whose […]
