A new UN report on food crisis has warned that global hunger could become the next big impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Over a quarter of a billion people are at risk of being pushed to the brink of starvation if swift action is not taken soon. On Tuesday the Global Network Against Food Crises […]
Cameroonian President Paul Biya on Monday donated “special gifts” to fight the coronavirus, as the central African country exceeded 1,000 confirmed cases over the weekend with 42 deaths. The country’s Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji said in a statement the gifts evaluated to the tune of 2 billion CFA francs (about 3.32 millions […]
The Federal Government has directed security agencies to stop Cameroonian refugees fleeing Southern Cameroons from gaining entrance into Nigeria through Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State to check the spread of Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, in the country. State Deputy Governor, and chairman of the State Action Committee on COVID-19, Benson Abounu, announced this, yesterday, […]
Gunmen shot dead two traditional leaders in volatile western Cameroon before being gunned down by soldiers, a local ruler said Monday, adding that the assailants were believed to be anglophone separatists. The casualties were the president and secretary general of a traditional council, according to Afungchwi III, the king of Bambili, where the clash took […]
The World Health Organization insisted Monday that it sounded the alarm on the novel coronavirus right from the very start and had hidden nothing from Washington about the deadly pandemic. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there were no secrets at the UN agency after being blasted by the United States for allegedly downplaying the […]
The 193 members of the UN General Assembly on Monday adopted by consensus a resolution that calls for “equitable, efficient and timely” access to any future vaccines developed to fight coronavirus. The resolution also highlights the “crucial leading role” played by the World Health Organization, which has faced criticism from Washington and others about its […]
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will be signing an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States. “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend […]
A nine-year-old who contracted COVID-19 in eastern France did not pass the virus on to any other pupils at three ski-schools, according to new research that suggests infants are not large spreaders of the disease. The child was infected in France’s Haute-Savoie region in one of the first coronavirus clusters in the country, which saw […]
The Biya regime has received 100 respirators and 300 thousand diagnostic test kits to combat the coronavirus pandemic. State media reported that the cargo ordered by the Cameroon government, arrived on Saturday at the Yaounde Nsimalen International Airport transported by Ethiopian Airlines cargo flight. Health officials say the arrival of the respirators and diagnostic kits […]
The number of deaths related to the coronavirus disease in Cameroon increased from 22 to 42 in just 24 hours. According to the Francophone Minister of Public Health, 42 patients have died in Cameroon since the first case of coronavirus was confirmed on March 6. On Friday evening, the minister announced 22 deaths and on […]
