An unsettling calm is quietly prevailing in Cameroon after the much-totted Major National Dialogue called by Cameroon’s President, Paul Biya, who has been in power for 37 years. Though the Major National Dialogue fell short of the expectations of many groups, especially the country’s Diaspora and Southern Cameroons separatists who have been locking horns with […]
Jean Moufo the Executive Director of Labogenie Group has been arrested in his office in Yaoundé by elements of the so-called Biya anti corruption squad. The French speaking Cameroonian was appointed to head Labogenie in 2017. This item is still developing By Rita Akana
A Russian pair of nuclear-capable bombers made an unprecedented visit to Africa on Wednesday, reflecting Moscow’s new push for influence. Footage from Russia’s Defence Ministry showed two TU-160 strategic fighter planes taking off from an unknown location in Russia and later landing at the Waterkloof airfield in South Africa. It reportedly took the flight more […]
Democrats have promised to push ahead with an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, after a group of Republican lawmakers caused chaos by storming a hearing session in the case. Encouraged by Trump to put up a stronger fight against the Democratic efforts to impeach him, a group of more than two dozen Republicans stormed […]
A Berlin-based journalist who was due to speak at a press freedom conference in Brisbane has said she was denied a visa by the Australian government because they believed she might try to stay. Mimi Mefo, an award-winning Cameroonian journalist who currently works for Deutsche Welle, was scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the […]
The border between Equatorial Guinea and La Republique du Cameroun, scene of past tensions, has not reopened more than 10 days after it was closed by Malabo ahead of its independence holiday, local officials told AFP on Tuesday “The border is still closed, nothing is passing through, we don’t know why,” said a police officer […]
Decked out in gold jewellery and high-end fashion, Walter and Cindy Tchassem descend on a Moscow fast-food joint escorted by bodyguards. Both originally from Cameroon, the couple are at the centre of a music and restaurant business empire in Russia. “People can’t understand how we did it, it’s unique,” Walter, 37, tells AFP at an […]
Cameroon’s state airline Camair-co has suspended West African flights in its struggles to stay afloat. According to Top Business, a Cameroon publication, the company recalled its staff from Abidjan in Ivory Coast, Lagos in Nigeria and Cotonou in Benin. The report said Camair-co General Manager Louis Georges Njipendi Kuotu officially recalled the staff a week […]
Southern Cameroons Security Chief reportedly travelled incognito to Bamenda, the chief city in the Northern Zone days before the attack on Governor Lele Afrique and his convoy of invading French Cameroun soldiers. Vice President Dabney Yerima has been quoted as saying that the Interim Government (IG) consented to the unannounced visit by the Security Chief […]
Substitute Kylian Mbappe scored a hat-trick as Paris Saint-Germain moved a step closer to the Champions League last 16 with a 5-0 victory over previously unbeaten Club Brugge on Tuesday. The World Cup winner, who has only started four games this season due to thigh and hamstring injuries netted three time in the space of […]
