• Biya’s Health Crisis: Fitch downgrades Cameroon to ‘B-‌’‌; outlook stable

    Biya’s Health Crisis: Fitch downgrades Cameroon to ‘B-‌’‌; outlook stable

    Fitch Ratings has downgraded Cameroon’s Long-Term Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to ‘B-‌’ from ‘B’. The Outlook is Stable. The downgrade reflects heightened political risks related to risks of a disorderly transition of power associated with uncertainties surrounding the presidential succession, and heightened financing pressures stemming from tightness in the Economic and Monetary Community of Central […]

  • The Holy Father celebrates mass in hospital

    The Holy Father celebrates mass in hospital

    Pope Leo XIV celebrated mass on Friday at the hospital where he is recovering from a lung cancer operation, as seen in the first images of him released by the Vatican since the procedure. The images showed the 71-year-old Chicago-born pope in front of a makeshift altar in a room on the 10th floor of […]

  • Etoudi dismisses death rumours, says 93-year-old Biya, who has ruled since 1982, is working

    Etoudi dismisses death rumours, says 93-year-old Biya, who has ruled since 1982, is working

    President Paul Biya has been declared alive and working by a senior presidential aide following renewed social media rumours claiming he had died, with the presidency dismissing the reports on Friday, October 16, 2026. Samuel Mvondo Ayolo, director of the Civil Cabinet at the Cameroonian presidency, rejected the claim in comments to Jeune Afrique, asking, […]

  • US: Teen shooter kills 3 children and teacher at Oregon elementary school

    US: Teen shooter kills 3 children and teacher at Oregon elementary school

    A 16-year-old opened fire at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, killing three children and a teacher before he was shot by a person at the scene who pursued him into the school, authorities said. Authorities found the suspect dead inside the school minutes after the shooting was first reported, Bend Police Chief […]

  • Orange Money and MTN MoMo earn CFA 21.5 billion in interest on customer funds held in banks

    Orange Money and MTN MoMo earn CFA 21.5 billion in interest on customer funds held in banks

    Bank accounts used by Orange Money Cameroon and Mobile Money Corporation Cameroon (MTN MoMo) to hold funds linked to customer transactions generated CFA21.5 billion in reported interest income, according to the 2025 report of Cameroon’s National Economic and Financial Committee (CNEF), published on October 2, 2026. Orange Money accounted for CFA9.9 billion of that amount, […]

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