The traditional British summer getaway to the sun-soaked beaches of the Mediterranean Sea is set to pick up steam Friday as U.K. quarantine restrictions are removed from dozens of countries, including France, Greece and Italy. But with many flights still canceled, holiday resorts still working on ensuring that they are Covid-safe and many potential holidaymakers […]
In western Cameroon, hundreds of single mothers protested this week against the cultural practice of forced marriage. The women, who say their parents forced them into early marriage, called on authorities to help end the practice, saying it too often ends in broken families. Twenty-year-old single mother Metombemb Aicha has been leading protests against the forced marriage […]
A cholera outbreak has sickened at least 983 people and killed at least 45 in Cameroon since January, health authorities said Thursday. The cases and deaths were recorded in four of the 10 Cameroonian regions, authorities said, warning that cases could increase in the rainy season from March through September. According to the state-run newspaper […]
Soldiers in Mozogo, in the Far North region of Cameroon, have forced civilians to perform local night guard duty to protect against attacks by the armed Islamist group Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch said today. At the beginning of this forced labor, from mid-March to late April, 2020, soldiers beat or threatened those who refused […]
The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a New York prosecutor investigating President Donald Trump and the Trump Organization in connection with hush-money payments can obtain his financial records, including his tax returns. The 7-2 ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts means that the subpoena issued to Trump’s long-time accounting firm, Mazars LLP, […]
On the morning of April 24, Fritz Takang became so breathless he could barely walk across the cramped cell he shared with 60 inmates at the main prison in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde. That night, he said, he was evacuated with five others to an apartment complex that was being used to quarantine suspected COVID-19 cases. […]
Southern Cameroons Vice President Dabney Yerima has defended a statement made public yesterday by his office on the lockdown reportedly announced on Ground Zero saying French Cameroun and their Southern Cameroons surrogates will not succeed in undermining the majority following of the Ambazonia Interim Government by spreading lies. In this week’s Amba cabinet briefing, the […]
The Ambazonia Interim Government has called for resumption of unity talks with other front line groups as a sign of respect and honour to the late Southern Cameroons veteran leader Mola Njoh Litumbe, Cameroon Concord News has gathered from sources close to the communications department of the Dabney Yerima administration. We understand that in a […]
Joseph Dion Ngute, the Prime Minister of Cameroon, has told the Ministry of Finance to open up ailing state-run companies to the capital and management of the private sector next year, the African economic news agency Ecofin reported. During a special cabinet meeting held to examine the budget and economic plan for the period 2021 […]
The United States topped three million confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday as President Donald Trump pushed for schools to re-open amid a COVID-19 resurgence in many southern hotspots. The United States topped three million confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday as President Donald Trump pushed for schools to re-open amid a COVID-19 resurgence in many southern hotspots. The […]
