CAF medical experts will assess this weekend the measures hosts Cameroon have taken to combat the coronavirus pandemic ahead of the African Nations Championship (CHAN). The central African country is scheduled to stage from April 4 to 25 the biennial competition for footballers playing in their country of birth. Cameroon reported two cases of the […]
Washington Senator Patty Murray (D) has said she is “so angry and frustrated” by President Donald Trump’s response to the coronavirus outbreak as the disease wreaks havoc in her home state. “Look, from day one, when we started seeing this grow and develop in China and continue to grow rapidly and expansively, all of us […]
Bruno Fernandes says his stellar form since he arrived at Manchester United in January is not the only reason why the club’s fortunes have improved on the pitch. After an inconsistent first half of the season, United are unbeaten in the nine games Fernandes has featured in since his £47 million ($58 million) move from […]
Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Guinea and Mauritania all confirmed their first cases of the new coronavirus on Friday, giving the disease a foothold in 19 countries on the African continent. Africa had until now largely been spared the rapid spread of COVID-19, which has infected at least 135,000 people and killed around 5,000 worldwide. Most of […]
US President Donald Trump announced a national state of emergency on Friday, freeing up $50 billion in federal funds for the battle against the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic. “To unleash the full power of the federal government, I’m officially declaring a national emergency,” Trump said in a statement on the White House lawn. He called on […]
Cases of the new coronavirus are ramping up in Africa, with six new countries announcing confirmed infections in the past 24 hours. Across Africa, at least 17 of the continent’s 54 countries have now registered COVID-19 cases. The majority of these cases are imported, authorities say. On Friday, Kenya, Guinea and Ethiopia reported their first […]
Cameroonian operator Camtel is ready to deploy its first GSM network in a bid to gain market share, ITWeb reported. Camtel has just under 3 percent of the market and has been overtaken by MTN Cameroon, Orange Cameroun and Viettel (Nexttel). Camtel has been offering CDMA mobile telephony since it started up in 1998. The […]
On January 30, armed separatists kidnapped Marie (not her real name), a 19-year-old secondary school student, in Buea, in Cameroon’s Anglophone South-West region. Three days later, they chopped her finger off with a machete. The reason? Marie wanted to go to school. Since 2017, armed separatist groups have enforced a boycott of education in the […]
The United States on Friday announced it was funding development of rapid diagnostic kits for the novel coronavirus as people across the country reported they were unable to get tested for the illness because of shortages. US authorities have come under fire for lagging behind in deploying test kits, which leading health experts have said […]
The leader of the Cameroonian Renaissance Movement Prof Maurice Kamto has escaped an assassination attempt. In a video posted on Facebook and shared by the party spokesperson, Sosthène Médard Lipot, a man in his forties was seen being pinched by a small group of MRC supporters in the presence of the party’s Vice Chairman Alain […]
