The ills of one of Southern Cameroons desperate town deepened today with the election of 32-year old Tabenchong Robertson Ashu, as the new Mayor of Mamfe. All 20 councilors of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate with charges of corruption, taking bribes from Market women and okada riders and financing pro Yaoundé armed militias in Manyu […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted French President Emmanuel Macron for talks on Monday, two days before Germany takes on the rotating presidency of the European Union with an economy mired in the worst crisis since World War II. Merkel said she hoped that European Union leaders would agree on the bloc’s next budget and a […]
Leaders from five West African countries and their ally France meet Tuesday to confer over their troubled efforts to stem a jihadist offensive unfolding in the Sahel. Meeting in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, presidents will take stock nearly six months after rebooting their campaign in Pau, southwestern France. Since then, the jihadists have continued to […]
The coronavirus pandemic is “not even close to being over”, the WHO warned Monday, as the global death toll passed half a million and cases surged in Latin America and the United States. In another grim milestone, the number of infections recorded worldwide topped 10 million, while some authorities reimposed lockdown measures that have crippled […]
The Southern Cameroons Interim Government has reportedly sounded a note of caution to the Ambazonia diaspora in Europe, South Africa and the United States that the shortage of financial support and assistance amid the coronavirus pandemic is weakening Self Defense Forces in Ground Zero. Vice President Dabney Yerima noted on Monday that the Ambazonia Defense […]
With 12,592 known cases of COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus, Cameroon will not benefit from the reopening of the European Union external borders, which is expected to happen by the beginning of July. Out of the number of known COVID-19 cases in the central African country, 10,100 have recovered while 313 have […]
Iran said Monday it has called for Interpol to arrest President Donald Trump and 35 other US officials for the January killing of its top general in an American drone strike. Tehran prosecutor Ali Qasi Mehr, quoted by state news agency IRNA, said 36 US political and military officials “involved in the assassination” of General […]
A Cameroonian journalist who freelances for the Voice of America says he was harassed by police who seized his equipment Saturday in Yaoundé, the capital. Moki Edwin Kindzeka said he was also ordered to speak only in French. In a social media post, Kindzeka said, “These guys should not molest people just because they speak […]
Cameroon will boost production of locally made goods as part of new measures to handle the economic hardships resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak, the country’s Minister of Trade, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana said on Friday. He said the Made in Cameroon initiative holds the key to the successful economic growth and recovery in the country, […]
Security situation in Cameroon’s English-speaking region of Southwest that has been ravaged by an armed separatist conflict for over three years is “under control,” a senior military officer said on Saturday. Commander of the 2nd Joint Military Region Benoit Eba Eba said, there had been “no major” incidents reported in the region for “quite some […]
