He is not officially a candidate for anything and has never publicly leaked the slightest ambition. But her slender silhouette is increasingly visible in official meetings, on social networks and the images distilled by the Cameroonian presidency. A new presence which inevitably raises questions in a country where discussions around the succession of the “captain” […]
Cameroon’s Anglophone conflict undermines national unity and is arguably the most damaging of the country’s multiple crises. It sparked demands for secession and led to separatists proclaiming a new state of Ambazonia in the country’s English-speaking North West and South West regions on 1 October 2017. The regions are home to about 20% of the […]
Defense ministers and security experts from Cameroon and Chad are meeting in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, to map out ways of jointly combating growing security threats along their border. Officials say a day hardly goes by without cases of either Boko Haram terrorist attacks or cross-border crimes, including armed gangs attacking civilians and wildlife, reported […]
Hundreds of Southern Cameroonians marched in the rural areas to mark the anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia by President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe. Carrying pro-independence flags and banners, the Southern Cameroonians chanted anti-French Cameroun slogans in Bui, Manyu, Ndian, Menchum, Fako and Mezam County. Among the Ambazonia celebrants […]
Military leaders in coup-hit Niger have accepted Algerian mediation and “a six-month transition plan”, the foreign ministry in Algiers announced Monday. The West African nation has been governed for more than two months by a military regime which took power after deposing Niger’s elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. “The Algerian government has received via the Nigerien […]
Germany defender Jerome Boateng trained with Bayern Munich on Sunday, amid reports the centre-back may be set to make a return to the Bundesliga champions. The club wrote on its website that Boateng was “among those involved” in Sunday’s session, adding the defender “will continue to train over the coming days”. Free since the expiry […]
The Algerian national airline, Air Algérie, is preparing for its first flight from Algiers to Douala on October 12. This information was revealed by the new Algerian ambassador to Cameroon, Abdallah Boukemmache, during an audience with the Minister of the Economy, Planning, and Regional Development (Minepat), Alamine Ousmane Mey, on September 27. Before this announcement, […]
A Francophone commander of Cameroon’s National Gendarmerie has been killed in the Northern Zone, a source in the governor’s office told Cameroon Concord News. Commander Betene Manga was in charge of anti Ambazonia operations at the gendarmerie post in Awing. He was killed when Southern Cameroons restoration forces raided the Awing gendarmerie post on Thursday. […]
Police in Cameroon have opened an investigation into claims that Samuel Eto’o was part of a match-fixing scandal. The former Barcelona striker, who has been president of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) since December 2021, was accused of helping to fix matches in Cameroon’s second tier in July after a recording of him speaking to […]
Greetings from Yaoundé which is in a much panicked mood! Minister René Emmanuel Sadi is now saying that any Cameroonian predicting a coup risked being arrested and prosecuted. In a statement on Monday, Sadi moonlighting as Minister of Communication and government spokesperson stated that “The government therefore urges those concerned to be careful not to […]
