Sidi Ould Tah of Mauritania was today elected President of the African Development Bank Group at the Bank’s Annual Meetings held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Tah was elected by the Bank’s Board of Governors, comprising Finance and Economy Ministers or Central Bank Governors of the Bank Group’s 81 regional and non-regional member countries. The board […]
A cholera outbreak in Sudan’s war-ravaged capital has claimed 70 lives in two days, health officials said Thursday, as Khartoum faces a mounting health emergency after more than two years of brutal conflict. Much of the Sudanese capital’s health and sanitation infrastructure, including this Khartoum hospital, was devastated by two years of fighting between the […]
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature – a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness. His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily documenting the transformation of his country – Kenya – from a colonial subject to a democracy. Ngũgĩ was tipped to win […]
Louis Paul Motazé, Cameroon’s Minister of Finance, has ordered an immediate stop to all services by retired agents and staff with no formal link to his department. He issued the instruction in a May 15 letter to the Ministry’s inspectors and general managers. “It has come to my attention that you are continuing to employ […]
On May 23, the Minister Delegate at the Presidency in charge of Defense, Joseph Beti Assomo, issued a press release. The source announced a special recruitment drive for the Cameroon Defense Forces. The army plans to add 1,800 male commandos to the Bataillon d’Intervention Rapide (BIR), its elite unit. Selection tests will run from July […]
Ahead of the next presidential election scheduled for October 2025, Cameroonian opposition leaders have been calling for unity. Célestin Bedzigui, president of the Parti de l’Alliance libérale (PAL), urged a “consensual candidacy” for the opposition during the second ordinary elective congress of the Parti camerounais pour la réconciliation nationale (PCRN), held May 23–24 in Nkolafamba, Centre region. […]
France’s First Lady has been caught on video slapping French President Emmanuel Macron in the face upon their arrival at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam. Numerous videos of the incident, which went viral over the weekend, show Brigitte Macron pushing the French president in the face as the hatch opens. Macron then pauses, […]
Ngabi Dora Tue, consumed by grief, was barely able to stand on her own. The coffin of her husband, Johnson Mabia, sat amid a crowd of stricken mourners in Limbe in Cameroon’s South-West region – an area that had witnessed scenes like this many times before. While on a work trip, Johnson – an English-speaking […]
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has claimed “there are discussions” over Cristiano Ronaldo playing at the Club World Cup this summer. Ronaldo’s club, Al-Nassr of the Saudi Pro League, failed to qualify for the expanded 32-team tournament in the United States. But Infantino says the 40-year-old Portugal forward, who is out of contract this summer, could […]
Joseph Kabila, the ex-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has lashed out at the government of his successor – calling it a “dictatorship”. The 53-year-old made a 45-minute speech live on YouTube on Friday evening from an unspecified location a day after the Senate lifted his immunity from prosecution. DR Congo’s authorities intend to […]
