Closed in 2017 due to terrorist threats and heightened security requirements, the underground parking facility at Douala International Airport is operational again. The infrastructure reopened on January 21 this year with the first users already parking their vehicles. The reopening follows six years of renovation work aimed at restoring the site to international standards for […]
Iran is prepared for both war and negotiations but will not accept imposed terms, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said amid continued Washington’s military threats against Tehran. “Iran is ready to enter nuclear negotiations if they are conducted from an equal position, based on mutual interests and mutual respect,” Araghchi said on Friday in a joint […]
The United Nations is at risk of “imminent financial collapse” due to member states not paying their fees, the body’s head has warned. António Guterres said the UN faced a financial crisis which was “deepening, threatening programme delivery”, and that money could run out by July. He wrote in a letter to ambassadors that all […]
Norwegian courts extended the pretrial detention of Ayaba Cho Lucas by eight weeks in December 2025, pushing the deadline to Feb. 9, 2026. Authorities arrested the Cameroonian-born separatist leader in Oslo in September 2024. The decision places Ayaba Cho into his second consecutive year of provisional detention following a series of extensions. Ayaba Cho Lucas, […]
Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) has suspended four referees and a match inspector following contentious refereeing decisions during a game in the country’s flagship football tournament, the MTN Elite One Championship. In a statement, FECAFOOT said the match, which was played on the opening day of the championship between Victoria United and PWD of Bamenda, was […]
Cameroon became the second African nation in less than a week to sell dollar bonds, as frontier markets take advantage of risk-on sentiment to raise funds. The central African nation priced a $750 million five-year bond at a yield of 10.125%, according to a person familiar with the matter. That compares with a yield of […]
Former Cameroon head coach Marc Brys reportedly received a performance-related bonus following the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, despite not being in charge of the national team at the tournament. The Belgian tactician was paid a bonus stipulated in his contract after Cameroon reached the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations, held in Morocco. […]
Violence against civilians remained high in Cameroon’s North-West and South-West regions in 2025, according to a report prepared in December by the U.S.-based NGO FEWS NET. While the two regions were relatively calmer during the peak of post-election tensions in October, the report points to an intensification of separatist attacks targeting ruling party officials and […]
Cameroon’s leadership is leaning on tycoon Baba Danpullo to quietly reconnect President Paul Biya with rival Issa Tchiroma Bakary. Cameroon’s long running political drama has acquired a new back channel, with businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo cast as an informal go between for President Paul Biya and his estranged former ally turned rival, Issa Tchiroma Bakary. […]
Laurentine Koa Mfegue, a member of parliament for the Mefou-et-Afamba constituency in the Center region, died on January 22. Since the start of the current legislature in March 2020, she had held the position of dean of the National Assembly as its oldest member. A ruling CPDM lawmaker, Koa Mfegue had represented Mefou-et-Afamba since 2013. […]
