During his General Audience, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the importance of forgiveness in the lives of people, looking at the story of Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus. “How many relationships are broken, how many stories become complicated, how many unspoken words remain suspended,” the pontiff said in the Paul VI Audience Hall in the […]
As Cameroon’s English-speaking regions grapple with a devastating separatist violence and economic collapse, Catholic schools are launching a bold shift toward technical education to transform jobless graduates into community “problem solvers.” The Bishops and Catholic Education Secretaries of the Bamenda Episcopal Province – which covers the Anglophone regions – announced the strategic pivot during their […]
President Paul Biya of Cameroon signed yesterday a decree authorizing Finance Minister Louis Paul Motazé to borrow CFA930 billion from both domestic and international capital markets. CFA350 billion of the total will be raised on the local market. This will be done either through Treasury bonds issued on the Central Africa Stock Exchange (BVMAC), or […]
Ah! What a grand spectacle of democracy turned into pilgrimage, where citizens no longer travel to Jerusalem or Mecca, but to Etoudi—armed not with rosaries or Qur’ans, but with envelopes of pledges and pockets emptied of 5 to10K contributions. The Presidency has become a shrine, and Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh its high priest, who, like the […]
Elections Cameroon (Elecam), the country’s election body, is moving to change the locations of certain polling places after a formal request from a presidential candidate. In an official message obtained by SBBC, Elecam Director-General Erik Essousse asked his ten regional delegates to “urgently submit proposals for changing the locations of polling stations, particularly those situated in […]
About 300 civilians were forcibly displaced from Banga-Bakundu in Cameroon’s Southwest Region in June, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The U.N. agency reported that the civilians moved to nearby communities, including Banga, Muyuka, Bombe-Bakundu, and Mbalangi. OCHA said the displacement was a result of the community’s “strategic […]
The Cameroonian government has asked the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) for CFA165 billion to rehabilitate the Douala-Yaoundé road, a 214.1-kilometer section of National Highway No. 3. The request, dated July 22, 2025, was signed by Minister of Economy Alamine Ousmane Mey. This key route links Douala and Yaoundé, the country’s two largest cities. It handles […]
Bishop Paul Lontsié-Keuné of Cameroon’s Catholic Diocese of Bafoussam has called on citizens of the country to remain vigilant, uphold truth, and vote with integrity in the country’s upcoming elections, warning against corruption, tribalism, and the sale of conscience. In his Thursday, August 14 homily during the Diocese’s annual Peace Pilgrimage, Bishop Lontsié-Keuné described the […]
Mali’s military rulers say they have arrested a French national on suspicion of spying for his country in an attempt to destabilise the African nation. In a statement read on national television late on Thursday, the junta alleged that Yann Vezilier was working “on behalf of the French intelligence service”. Mr Vezilier is yet to […]
Pope Leo XIV received Philémon Yang, the president of the UN General Assembly, on August 11, as his one-year presidential term nears its completion. Neither the Vatican nor the United Nations issued a statement on the topics of the conversation. The president of the UN General Assembly, elected by his peers, chairs the meetings of […]
