Boko Haram militants have kidnapped17 children and youths, some as young as 11, in the north of Cameroon near the Nigerian frontier, police and local officials said on Thursday. Since it began a decade ago, Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency has killed more than 27,000 people, displaced some two million, but has increasingly spilled over into […]
Cameroon’s ability to host the 2021 African Cup of Nations (Afcon) has once again been put to doubt as the company charged with the construction of the main stadium for the competition has abandoned the project. The Cameroon government withdrew the contract for the construction of the Olembe Sports Complex in Yaoundé on grounds that […]
Cameroon has withdrawn a controversial bill that sought to promote the use of French and English languages in official corridors. The withdrawal just before Parliament adopted came after lawyers protested on the streets that the legislation could lead to more French-speaking judges being assigned to courts in the English-speaking North West and South West of […]
Pirates have kidnapped 19 crew members from a crude oil tanker off Nigeria, an official with the ship’s operator said on Thursday. The loaded vessel was attacked 77 nautical miles off Bonny island late on Dec. 3 and the crew – 18 Indians and one Turk – were seized, the official said. Another seven crew […]
The remaining signatories to the faltering 2015 Iran nuclear deal will meet in Vienna on Friday with the survival of the landmark agreement at stake after Tehran vowed to continue to breach the deal’s limits on its nuclear programme. Envoys from Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia and Iran will take part in the meeting, which […]
The eldest son of Gabonese president Ali Bongo Ondimba, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, has been handed a political appointment at the presidency according to reports. He was appointed “Coordinator of Presidential Affairs” on Thursday with the main mandate “to assist the President of the Republic in the conduct of all affairs of the State.” The AFP […]
Southern Cameroons Vice President, Dabney Yerima says the establishment of the Bank of Ambazonia and the Amba Bonds Project are necessary reforms carried out by the Interim Government to win the support of the diaspora and to equip the Restoration Forces. Dabney Yerima made the comments during a telephone conversation with the Cameroon Concord News […]
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday demanded West African leaders dismiss growing anti-French sentiment across the region if they wanted France’s military to continue its operations against Islamist militants. France, the former colonial power, has the West’s largest military presence waging counter-insurgency operations in Mali and the wider Sahel, an arid region of west Africa just […]
A former governor of Nigeria’s southeastern Abia State has been jailed 12-years for fraud by a court sitting in the commercial capital, Lagos while Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, governor of Nigeria’s north central Kano state caught on camera receiving bribes is still moving Scot free. The country’s anti-graft outfit, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, announced […]
A French Cameroun government case against 37 innocent Southern Cameroons civilians abducted in Taraba State in Nigeria which raised fears of President Buhari’s interference in the Ambazonia crisis has been adjourned to the 2nd of January 2020. The 37 Southern Cameroons asylum seekers in the Federal Republic of Nigeria were abducted on the 31st of […]
