Money sent home by Cameroonian diaspora grew to $300 million (about XAF173 billion) in 2018 compared to $278 million (XAF150 billion) in 2017. This was reported by WorldRemit, the world’s leading online money transfer service provider, in a December 19 memo, citing figures provided by the World Bank. According to the document, WorldRemit users who […]
A Sudanese government source says President Omar al-Bashir has stepped down and that consultations are underway to form a transitional council. Adel Mahjoub Hussein, the Sudanese minister of production and economic resources in North Darfur, told the Dubai-based al-Hadath TV on Thursday that, “There are consultations to form a military council to take over power […]
Thousands of Algerians have taken to the streets of the capital Algiers to protest against the appointment of the speaker of the upper house of parliament, Abdelkader Bensalah, as interim president, whom they see as a leftover of the regime of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Chanting “Go away Bensalah!” and “A free Algeria!”, protesters on […]
European Union leaders have agreed to grant British Prime Minister Theresa May a new Brexit deadline of October 31, officials say, after French President Emmanuel Macron opposed efforts to give her another year. “A Brexit extension until 31 October is sensible since it gives time to UK to finally choose its way,” Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat tweeted, adding that […]
Cameroon’s military has rescued five people who were abducted and held for months inside the Central African Republic. The hostages, found Tuesday abandoned in the wild, say they were treated as slaves by suspected CAR rebels because their families could not afford to pay a ransom. Medical staff at the Ngaoundere Hospital attend to five […]
Four-time African Footballer of the Year Samuel Eto’o says he made FC Barcelona win and not Lionel Messi during his time under Pep Guardiola. Eto’o, 38, who now plays with QSL side Qatar Sports Club was less than complimentary to Guardiola who sold the African superstar to Inter after helping Barca lift a treble including […]
Cameroonian soldiers, gendarmes, and members of the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR) carried out a deadly attack on the North-West region village of Meluf on April 4, 2019. Government forces killed five civilian men, including one with a mental disability, and wounded one woman. Three of the bodies were later found mutilated, including one that had […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW), the global human rights watchdog, has investigated murders in many Cameroonian villages in the country’s northwest region. The report published in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has accused Cameroonian soldiers, gendarmes, and members of the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BIR) of carrying out a deadly attack on the North-West region village of Meluf on April […]
Your Royal Highness, In 1990, the founding National Vice President of the CPDM party, Dr. John Ngu Foncha resigned from the party, citing some of the issues you are now complaining about. By remaining inside that party, did you hope to correct those wrongs or did you consider that John Ngu Foncha was just a […]
The United Nations (UN) has postponed a conference in Libya that had been meant to discuss the possibility of holding elections in the country, as fighting between rival domestic forces continues near the capital Tripoli and elsewhere. UN special envoy for Libya Ghassan Salame announced on Tuesday that the two-day conference — which had been […]
