It was at about 6 pm Saturday July 17th 2016 when a huge fire emerged from an unknown business store in Molyko, Malingo junction opposite the police station and spread over the entire building. The storey building with about 20 stores mainly for commercial purposes was reduced to ashes. Accessories, assorted articles, clothes, electronics and […]
The trial continued at the Yaounde Military Tribunal on Thursday, July 14, 2016, of Gendarmerie Captain, Bouba Simala, on threats allegedly proffered against his former boss, Hon. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, Speaker of the National Assembly. Simala, who is the Speaker’s nephew and long-time member of his personal guard for over 20 years, is now accused […]
Thousands of Turks have taken to the streets of Istanbul to celebrate a failed military coup against the Ankara government that plunged the country into hours of violence and intrigue. The protesters marched to Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Saturday, waving Turkish flags and honking horn. Some demonstrators climbed on top of Taksim’s central monument commemorating the founding of […]
The CPDM government has rejected calls by the United Nations for the immediate release of former Minister Marafa Hamidou Yaya. The Biya regime responded on Friday against an earlier position adopted on June 2, 2016 by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, following its 75th session in the month of April. To the […]
Prime Minister, Head of Government, Philemon Yang, who is also the Chairman of the Organising Committee for the Female and Male African Cup of Nations tournaments in 2016 and 2019 respectively, has called on enterprises carrying out rehabilitation and construction of the Yaounde Omnisport Stadium and the three training playgrounds (Military Stadium and Annex 1 […]
Cameroon football legend, Samuel Eto’o has cancelled the charity match organized to celebrate 10 years of existence of the Samuel Eto’o Foundation. The organizers of the event have issued a public statement saying the security situation in Turkey though under control will not be able to sustain a popular event such as the charity encounter. […]
The Special Criminal Court has held a second hearing in the corruption case involving the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Cameroon Electricity Development Corporation. Cameroon Intelligence Report understands the court session took place on July the 14 in Yaounde and Celestin Ndonga, former CEO of Electricity Development Corporation (EDC) was cross examined […]
The Russian prime minister says Western countries have lost an estimated USD 100 billion due to sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Kremlin’s alleged role in the Ukraine conflict. “According to estimates of international experts, in recent time, the countries that have imposed the sanctions have lost about USD 100 billion,” Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday. Medvedev, who was among the […]
An attempted coup in Turkey was faltering on Saturday, hours after a faction of the military used tanks and helicopters in an ill-fated attempt to end the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. Erdogan and Yildirim appeared on television soon after the coup was launched, declaring that the putsch was over and that they continued to […]
French President Francois Hollande says nearly 50 people are in a critical condition following the deadly terror attack in the southern city of Nice. “As I speak 84 people are dead, and around 50 are in a critical condition between life and death,” Hollande said in a speech from a hospital in Nice on Friday. The […]
