Cameroon’s Ministry of Finance has announced that no new commitments on the 2024 state budget will be allowed after November 15, 2024. This instruction, detailed in a letter from Finance Minister Louis Paul Motazé, is directed at all officials involved in managing the country’s budget. Moreover, December 31, 2024, will be the final day for […]
The 2023 school year in Southern Cameroons was severely disrupted by a “lockdown” imposed by the Southern Cameroons Interim Government from September 9 to 23. In a recent report, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) highlights an increase in attacks on schools, students, and teaching staff, further endangering access to […]
Donald Trump declares victory in the US election as he addresses jubilant supporters in Florida “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” he says to cheering crowds The Republican has picked up the battleground states of Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia, leaving Kamala Harris with only a narrow path to victory Just before […]
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Susan Ngongi Namondo of Cameroon as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Tanzania, with the host Government’s approval, on 1 November 2024. Most recently Ms. Ngongi Namondo served as the UN Resident Coordinator in Uganda from 2021-2024. Prior to that, she served as UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator […]
The heads of the five families that make up Manyemen village, Upper Balong in Nguti Subdivision have rejected the dubious selection of a non-native of their village Mr Williams Mbue Bisong, as traditional ruler of Manyemen a year ago by the Senior Divisional Officer for Kupe-Muanenguba. On November 2nd, they or their representatives, led a […]
China holds 64.8% of Cameroon’s bilateral debt, amounting to around CFA1,923.4 billion, according to the Autonomous Sinking Fund (CAA) report released on October 31, 2024. This share represents 22.4% of Cameroon’s total external debt, which stands at CFA8,596 billion. France, the next-largest bilateral lender, holds CFA768.3 billion, or 25.9% of Cameroon’s bilateral debt and 8.9% […]
Cameroon’s National Sinking Fund (CAA) has revealed that, as of September 30, 2024, debt contracted by the Cameroonian government and transferred to public companies has reached CFA984.7 billion. According to CAA’s latest report on Cameroon’s public debt, this amount stood at CFA1.518 trillion at the end of 2023, is distributed among eleven state-owned enterprises. The […]
US Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are hurtling toward their November 5 election showdown, one of the closest contests in modern American history. Advertising And in the handful of critical states framing the 2024 race, there is little daylight between the rivals with barely a week before Election Day. Under the […]
The UK’s battle-scarred Conservatives on Saturday elected “anti-woke” candidate Kemi Badenoch as its new head, making her the first black leader of a major UK party. The combative former equalities minister replaces Rishi Sunak and now faces the daunting task of reuniting a divided and weakened party emphatically ousted from power in July after 14 […]
Less than two weeks since the country’s president, Paul Biya, returned from Switzerland where he was inflated with steroids, the 91-year-old dictator who was swollen like a dead fish has lost the weight that was almost crushing him. Pictures of the incompetent dictator granting audience to the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, H.E. Paul Patrick […]
