Tunisia coach Jalel Kadri refuses to underestimate his team’s opponents in the African Cup of Nations after the tournament’s opening matches, which were full of surprises, showed that there are no small teams in Africa. Tunisia, who have made 21 appearances in the prestigious tournament and won the title in 2004, are competing against Mali, […]
Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana is facing a race against time to play Cameroon’s opening game of the Africa Cup of Nations after his private jet was blocked due to bad weather. Onana agreed to join up with Cameroon for their AFCON campaign in the Ivory Coast at a later date to enable him to […]
Catholic bishops in Cameroon, which has been gripped by civil conflict for the past seven years, have denounced rising poverty in the country as well as violence associated not only with a separatist movement in English-speaking regions but also atrocities committed by Boko Haram insurgents. In a release at the end of their Jan. 6-13 […]
The first Africa Cup of Nations to be held in Ivory Coast in four decades gets underway on Saturday as the hosts, without their star forward Sebastien Haller, take on minnows Guinea-Bissau at the newly-built Ebimpe Olympic Stadium. Ivory Coast have been African champions twice before, most recently in 2015 with a team captained by […]
Three aid workers with French NGO Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI) have been abducted in northern Cameroon, the humanitarian group said Thursday. The kidnapped aid workers are all Cameroonian nationals based in the northern city of Maroua, in one of the NGO’s three branches in the country. “Premiere Urgence Internationale confirms to its great regret that […]
Former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson says he has “best case a year” to live after being diagnosed with cancer. The 75-year-old Swede was the first foreign coach to manage England and led the side to the quarter-finals of the 2002 and 2006 World Cup and 2004 Euros. “I’m going to resist for as long as […]
The outstanding non-repaid bank credits of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (Cemac) reached CFA1,917.9 billion on December 31, 2022. These overdue bank credits have multiplied by 4 compared to their level ten years earlier (CFA495 billion at the end of December 2012), as revealed by the Bank of Central African States (Beac) in […]
Cameroon’s Minister of Secondary Education Pauline Nalova Lyonga has called for efforts to promote the use of textbooks written by Cameroonians for vocational education programs. She was speaking at a ceremony Wednesday to hand over textbooks on industrial techniques to some technical and vocational schools in the country. “The ceremony today is a clear sign […]
President Joe Biden was only told that US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin was being treated for cancer on Tuesday, the White House has said. Mr Austin, 70, was admitted to hospital on 1 January and then to the intensive care unit for complications following surgery in December. He has faced criticism for not telling senior […]
The United Arab Emirates banned ships arriving in its waters that sail under the flag of Cameroon — a move that distances the emirate from risky vessels that have been assembled to transport sanctioned oil. The Cameroon flag has been added to a restricted list and maritime companies and ship agents should not provide vessels […]
