Former defence minister Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o, once tipped to succeed Cameroon President Paul Biya, has been charged with diverting public funds and corruption, legal sources said Sunday. “Mr Mebe Ngo’o is suspected of diverting public money and corruption,” an official of the Special Criminal Tribunal revealed. Mebe Ngo’o was put in provisional detention on […]
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet to Nairobi crashed early on Sunday with 149 passengers and eight crew members aboard, the airline said, and there were no survivors, according to the state broadcaster. The flight left Bole airport in Addis Ababa at 8.38 am local time, before losing contact with the control tower just a few minutes later at […]
American citizens visiting most of the countries of Europe will need authorization from the European Union starting in 2021, according to a CNN report. The EU has planned to create a European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) that will require “pre-travel screening for security and migration risks of travelers benefiting from visa-free access to the […]
Former US Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders stand out among likely caucus-goers in Iowa, with Biden having a slim 2-point edge ahead Sanders. According to a Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll released Saturday, Biden, who has not announced whether he is running in the 2020 election, received 27 percent and Sanders got 25 […]
A 200-kilometre road (124 miles) project stretches between the townships of Batschenga, Ntui and Yoko, in central Cameroon. The road crosses farms, forests, water bodies and pastoral areas that sustain the mostly agrarian economy of nearly 40 villages and three towns. The road, a basic infrastructure that many countries take for granted, literally shapes the […]
What started as a struggle for sovereignty by citizens of southern Cameroon has spiraled into a full-blown crisis. Rebel groups seeking an end to what they consider domination of the anglophone south by the francophone north have taken up weapons against the government’s security forces, causing hundreds to die while tens of thousands are forced […]
US Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson, one of the first officials to join the Trump administration in the Pentagon, says she will resign in May and return to academia. Wilson was considered a top candidate to become the next secretary of defense and now her resignation will leave another vacant post at the […]
A Cameroon TV show that featured a demonstration of how to physically abuse your wife has sparked outrage and calls for an end to impunity in a country where violence against women runs high. The presenter of the show, on the privately owned Vision4 channel, demonstrated how to “calm” a woman by squeezing her neck. […]
MTN Cameroon reported a 11.7 percent rise in subscribers in 2018 to almost 8 million, giving it a 47.20 percent market share and a turnover of CFA 212 billion, with strong growth in the fourth quarter. It said that it began to improve its performance curve in 2018 after a particularly difficult 2017. It achieved […]
On August 31, 2006, my friend Bate Besong wrote a dedicated poem titled “Why we laugh at politicians and give them names”. That poem and its premonitory message impels me to struggle to find the underlying message behind the poem dedicated to me by a friend with whom I spent time discussing everything from literature […]
