More than 43 Southern Cameroons detainees held in the New Bell prison in Douala are reportedly on a hunger strike to protest their dire conditions of detention. Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered that in addition to the hundreds of Southern Cameroons prisoners transferred from Buea to Douala, 15 others were also recently relocated there from Limbe. […]
Juventus and France midfielder Paul Pogba has been provisionally suspended after a doping control detected the banned substance testosterone, Italian anti-doping authorities (NADO) told AFP on Monday. “The National Antidoping Tribunal informs that, in acceptance of the instance proposed by the National Antidoping Prosecutor, it has provided for the provisional suspension of the athlete Paul […]
Seaman Recruit Aristide Kongnyuy, a sailor from Cameroon, graduated as the top Sailor from Recruit Training Command, Division 185, earning the Military Excellence Award (MEA) on July 21. The Navy Club of the United States Military Excellence Award (MEA) is the top award presented to the recruit that best exemplifies the qualities of enthusiasm, devotion […]
Cameroon has raised the fixed farmgate price it pays to cocoa farmers to 1,500 CFA francs ($2.47) per kilogram for the 2023/2024 season from 1,200 CFA francs last season, Trade Minister Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana said on Thursday. The price is the highest since 2015, the minister said at the launch of the 2023/24 season, […]
The Higher Judicial Council is having to foot the bill for the behind-the-scenes conflict between Cameroonian presidency secretary general Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh and justice minister Laurent Esso. It has been unable to make any appointments for the last three years, reports Africa Intelligence. The Ngoh Ngoh-Laurent Esso tug-of-war is going on at a time when […]
By the end of the 2022-23 school year, thousands of schools were closed in Cameroon. The schools were closed either because they were a direct target of attacks by Non-State Armed Groups (NSAGs) or because teachers have fled leaving no-one to teach, or because parents are too frightened to send their children to school or […]
The Cameroonian government has put in place the system of “divide and rule”, which makes attempts by the country’s military to overthrow President Paul Biya impossible, a Catholic peace entity has said, allaying fears of “a possible coup” in the Central African nation. Following recent military coups in Africa, particularly the July 26 one in […]
On Wednesday last week, a new Gabonese military junta installed itself, having ousted President Ali Bongo, whose family have ruled the country since 1967. Just two days earlier, the French President Emmanuel Macron gave a speech to his ambassadors in which he spoke of an ‘epidemic of putschs’ in what was formerly France’s greatest sphere […]
The group of the world’s 20 leading economies is welcoming the African Union as a permanent member, a powerful acknowledgement of Africa as its more than 50 countries seek a more important role on the global stage. U.S. President Joe Biden called last year for the AU’s permanent membership in the G20, saying it’s been […]
Cameroon’s president Paul Biya spends so much time at Geneva’s Intercontinental Hotel that dissidents routinely picket the opulent lakeside premises to voice their discontent at his 40-year rule. From his suite overlooking the Swiss city’s pristine lake, Biya will have had ample time to ponder the wave of coups that have swept western and central […]
