Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute, on an official visit to the Far North since April 28th, was bestowed with high honors at the Mada chieftaincy by Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, the locality’s lamido and President of the National Assembly. Following a courtesy visit to Djibril on April 29th, 2025, Ngute, the nation’s fourth-ranking official, was elevated […]
Customs officials in Idenau, Fako department, Southwest region, on April 25, 2025, made their first seizure of Fourteen-branded jerseys. The operation follows the memorandum of understanding signed between Customs and the Cameroonian Football Federation (Fecafoot) on April 2, 2025, in Yaoundé. The seizure of 20 counterfeit jerseys underscores the government’s commitment to combating the clandestine […]
African natural resources have, for decades, triggered huge armed conflicts, giving the impression that there is a massive resource curse on the richest continent in the world. Many reports on Africa’s unfortunate situation, most of which are written by Westerners, usually avoid pointing out that the resource curse on African countries is fuelled by bad […]
Paris Saint-Germain beat Arsenal 1-0 in the Champions League semi-final first leg on Tuesday, with Ousmane Dembele scoring early at the Emirates. PSG controlled the game to protect their lead and head into the May 7 return leg in Paris as favourites to reach their first-ever Champions League final. Paris Saint-Germain seized the advantage in […]
US President Donald Trump has removed Doug Emhoff, husband of his former rival Kamala Harris, from the Holocaust Memorial Council board, drawing an angry reaction. Emhoff, who is married to the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee and former vice president, campaigned against anti-Semitism as part of the administration of Joe Biden, who appointed him to the […]
Faltering economic growth is coinciding with ample oil supply in ways that are expected to drop global commodity prices to their lowest level of the 2020s, according to the World Bank’s latest Commodity Markets Outlook. The decline could moderate near-term inflation risks emerging from rising trade barriers, but it could also hamper prospects for economic […]
The death of Pope Francis has set in motion a centuries-old ritual to select a new pope. Cardinals will meet in a secret conclave to elect the new global Church leader starting May 7, the Vatican said Monday. Cardinals have been gathering in Vatican City since the pontiff died on April 21, but few clues […]
Cameroon and Chad inaugurated a bridge over the Logone River on Monday with bilateral ties deepening. Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute and his Chadian counterpart Allamaye Halina presided over the inauguration. The bridge, measuring about 620 meters long and linking the Cameroonian town of Yagoua to Chad’s Bongor town, is a mark of friendship between […]
Namibia’s agriculture minister has been sacked after being accused of raping a 16-year-old girl five years ago. Mac-Albert Hengari was arrested on Saturday after allegedly attempting to bribe the victim, now 21, to withdraw the case against him, local media quote the police as saying. Hengari, who has denied any wrongdoing, is expected to appear […]
At least 68 African migrants have been killed in a US air strike on a detention centre in Houthi-controlled north-western Yemen, the armed group’s TV channel says. Al Masirah reported that another 47 migrants were injured, most of them critically, when the centre in Saada province was bombed. It posted graphic footage showing multiple bodies […]
