The former Acting President of Ambazonia, Samuel Ikome Sako has reportedly displayed a well-developed criminal intent all in a bid to hang on to leadership. Earlier this week, on the 6th of May 2019, Cameroon Concord News Group sounded a note of caution to Southern Cameroonians that Sako was planning to offer Elvis Kometa money […]
Nigerian militias battling Daesh-linked Boko Haram terrorist group has freed some 900 child recruits from its ranks, United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has announced. The Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) freed 894 children, who were aged between 13 and 19 and had been recruited back in 2017, at a ceremony in the northeastern town of Maiduguri […]
Former Barcelona and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure has ended his football career to focus on becoming a manager, said his agent, Dimitry Seluk. Toure most recently played for Olympiakos in the Greek Super League during a short-lived stay where he made just five appearances. The former Manchester City midfielder has been without a club […]
The countries of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC), for several months now have been suffering from a shortage of access to foreign currencies, penalizing households and businesses. Struck by the fall in oil prices, six countries members of the CFA franc zone are pegged to the euro by a fixed exchange rate. In […]
Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute visited the crisis-prone English-speaking region Friday, prompting protests from 200 women who demanded an end to the violence there. Clotilda Wah, spokesperson for the Northwest and Southwest Women’s Task Force, says the group can no longer bear the killing, destruction of property, looting and kidnapping. “As women, we bear […]
Days before Algeria’s 82-year-old strongman president Abdelaziz Bouteflika was ousted from power, the country made one last ditch attempt to keep control: it shut down the internet. A few weeks later, 75-year-old Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s rule ended with a picture of mainly female protestors going viral on social media platforms. If there has […]
A pastor was allegedly shot and killed by military forces in Cameroon last month amid the ongoing violence in the country’s Anglophone regions. Pastor Keloh Elijah, a graduate of Cameroon Baptist Theological Seminary in Ndu, was reported to have been killed during a military invasion in the Mfumte area where other people were also said […]
The government of Cameroon and Anglophone separatists have found themselves in a political impasse. Cameroon-based political and security analysts believe that both sides should make concessions, adding that external players, most notably Russia and China, should step in to facilitate the resolution of the crisis. The International Crisis Group (ICG), a transnational NGO, is ringing […]
Jean Tchoffo, Secretary General of the Cameroonian economy ministry, presided on May 8 in Yaoundé over the presentation of a report on the trade impact of the bilateral Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Cameroon and the United Kingdom. According to the official, the validation of this study is the first step before the actual start […]
Cameroon’s Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute on Thursday began a one week visit to the conflict-hit English speaking Northwest and Southwest regions hoping to find a political solution to the escalating violence and the ensuing humanitarian crisis. During the visit from May 9 -16 the first by the premier since his appointment last January, Dion […]
