US President Donald Trump has been impeached over abuse of power after a vote by the US House of Representatives. In a historic vote on Wednesday, the lower chamber of US Congress voted to impeach the president over pressuring Ukraine for personal political gain. The majority of the lawmakers supported both articles of impeachment, abuse […]
Boko Haram Takfiri militants have attacked a village in western Chad near the border of northeast Nigeria, leaving 14 people killed and 13 others unaccounted for. Chadian officials said the attack was carried out near the fishing village of Kaiga on the shores of Lake Chad on Tuesday. “There were 14 dead, five wounded and […]
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is set to launch a branch office in Cameroon – its first in Central Africa – as the bank seeks to increase its presence in the region. Afreximbank and the government of Cameroon have signaled their intent to establish a hub in Yaounde, inking a branch office agreement and a […]
Ever since the so-called Swiss Peace Initiative was made public to the international community, several Southern Cameroons civilians have been killed by the French Cameroun army deployed to Ambazonia. Recently, three French Cameroun soldiers were killed in the Northern zone of Ambazonia. The three were reportedly killed in a firefight with the Southern Cameroons Restoration […]
Ernest Ela Evina holds the record as the longest serving general manager of a public company in French Cameroun. To be sure, Evina was appointed in 1974 by the late President Ahmadou Ahidjo as general manager of the National Center for Studies and Experimentation in Agricultural Machinery (Ceneema). Mr Ernest Ela Evina was only replaced […]
French President Emmanuel Macron is set to undertake a two-nation tour of West Africa, the presidency disclosed on Tuesday. He is expected to visit Ivory Coast before proceeding to Niger. His visit to Niamey has been described as a short one on December 22, when he is supposed to meet his Nigerien counterpart Mahamadou Issoufou. […]
An enraged US President Donald Trump said he was being subjected to an “attempted coup” and a witch trial as Democrats set a historic impeachment vote for Wednesday. In an extraordinarily angry six-page letter, Trump on Tuesday told Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the Democratic-led House of Representatives, that “history will judge you harshly.” Referring to a famous miscarriage of […]
A military court sitting in the Cameroonian capital Yaoundé will begin hearing a case involving seven soldiers who killed two women and their children in 2018. Hearing is scheduled to start in January 20. Authorities have disclosed that the hearing will not be open to the public. A video of the killing was released and […]
Cameroon planned tough road safety measures during year-end festivities, including the deployment of additional security forces across the country to ensure safety at the peak of holiday season, national police said on Monday. “Our forces will henceforth be on guard on major roads in (the capital) Yaounde and its environs to ensure prompt action in […]
Cameroon’s military has arrested several dozen men and destroyed hundreds of locally made guns and weapons the men allegedly circulated on the central African state’s northern border with Chad and Nigeria. A military compactor crushes more than 2,500 locally made guns, ammunition and other weapons the military says it seized over the past three weeks […]
