Cameroon’s Prime Minister, Dion Ngute, arrived in Buea on Thursday, February 6, 2020, where he campaigned for his party, the Cameroon Peoples Dictatorship Movement (CPDM) that has been in power for 37 years with nothing to show for. The low-energy Prime Minister came to the Southwest regional headquarters in an attempt to demonstrate that there […]
Lawyers for Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo argued on Thursday that he should be released without conditions while awaiting the prosecution’s appeal against his acquittal at the International Criminal Court. The ICC, the world’s first permanent war crimes court, acquitted Gbagbo on crimes against humanity charges on Jan. 15, saying prosecutors had failed to […]
Another group of nearly 350 Americans airlifted from the epicenter of China’s fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak have been placed under quarantine at two military bases in California, as the number of confirmed US cases of the disease rose to 12. The travelers aboard two State Department-chartered cargo jets were met by personnel from the Centers for […]
Suspected Boko Haram jihadists attacked a village in northern Cameroon early on Tuesday, torching homes and killing two civilians just days before legislative and municipal elections, security sources said. “Boko Haram made an incursion a little before 02:00 in Mozogo village,” in the Extreme-Nord province “killing two people,” a police officer told AFP. They torched […]
On 9 February over six million Cameroonians will be called to vote in twin legislative and municipal elections. Initially planned for 2018, the polls were postponed twice for organisational and financial reasons. Voting later this week will still take place under tenuous security and political conditions. Since 2013, Boko Haram has recurrently attacked in the […]
The CPDM convoy of the Minister of Supreme State Control (CONSUPE) was attacked by Ambazonia Restoration Forces as she braved the bad roads from Bamenda to Mbengwi to campaign for the so-called twin poll in the Momo County in Southern Cameroons. Cameroon Concord News correspondent in Mbengwi reported that despite being accompanied by a heavily […]
CAF is seriously considering cancelling the 2020 African Nations Championships scheduled to kickoff in Cameroon from April 4 to 25 this year. The African football body is seriously considering shelving this year’s edition of the tournament, popularly known as CHAN, due to busy schedule and reluctant of clubs to release their players. This would be […]
The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China has approached 500, and more than 24,000 others have been infected with the rapidly spreading virus, which is also taking a toll on the world economy. China’s National Health Commission confirmed that the death toll was now at 490, after Hubai Province reported 65 more fatalities […]
According to a release signed by the chief of cabinet at the prime minister’s office, the head of government, Dion Ngute, is scheduled to visit football infrastructure that will host the African football Championship (CHAN) and African Cup of Nations AFCON. Some analysts hold the low-energy prime minister might be going to the Southwest to […]
London-listed Tower Resources has started the site survey at its Thali license offshore Cameroon, ahead of the planned drilling operation at the NJOM-3 well. Tower Resources said Tuesday that the Geoquip Marine geotechnical drillship vessel MV Investigator was at the proposed site for the NJOM-3 well, and was conducting the site survey. The MV Investigator […]
