China holds 64.8% of Cameroon’s bilateral debt, amounting to around CFA1,923.4 billion, according to the Autonomous Sinking Fund (CAA) report released on October 31, 2024. This share represents 22.4% of Cameroon’s total external debt, which stands at CFA8,596 billion. France, the next-largest bilateral lender, holds CFA768.3 billion, or 25.9% of Cameroon’s bilateral debt and 8.9% […]
Cameroon’s National Sinking Fund (CAA) has revealed that, as of September 30, 2024, debt contracted by the Cameroonian government and transferred to public companies has reached CFA984.7 billion. According to CAA’s latest report on Cameroon’s public debt, this amount stood at CFA1.518 trillion at the end of 2023, is distributed among eleven state-owned enterprises. The […]
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The UK’s battle-scarred Conservatives on Saturday elected “anti-woke” candidate Kemi Badenoch as its new head, making her the first black leader of a major UK party. The combative former equalities minister replaces Rishi Sunak and now faces the daunting task of reuniting a divided and weakened party emphatically ousted from power in July after 14 […]
Less than two weeks since the country’s president, Paul Biya, returned from Switzerland where he was inflated with steroids, the 91-year-old dictator who was swollen like a dead fish has lost the weight that was almost crushing him. Pictures of the incompetent dictator granting audience to the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, H.E. Paul Patrick […]
Crews searched for bodies in stranded cars and sodden buildings Thursday as people tried to salvage what they could from their ruined homes following devastating flash floods in Spain that claimed at least 158 lives. Spain’s worst natural disaster this century left a trail of destruction and fears that more horrors will be uncovered from the layers of mud that walls […]
Floods in Cameroon’s Far North region have killed at least 38 people since July, according to the latest report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The worst-hit area, Logone-et-Chari, has seen 12 deaths, while Mayo-Danay has reported 11. The departments of Mayo-Kani and Mayo-Tsanaga have recorded 5 and 2 fatalities, […]
Recent heavy rains in Cameroon could impact both food and cash crop production, warns the National Observatory on Climate Change (Onacc) in its October 21-30 climate bulletin. The report highlights risks for key crops, including cocoa, palm oil, banana, and rubber, across various regions. According to Onacc, Cameroon’s agricultural sector faces potential damage from intense […]
Cameroon and Germany have agreed to create a commission that will facilitate the restitution of artifacts that were removed from the Central African country during the colonial era, visiting German Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Simen Katja Keul said Wednesday. “Now we have a procedure, we have a commission, and they are in direct dialogue […]
African bishops at the Synod on Synodality played a key role in fending off efforts to give episcopal conferences greater doctrinal autonomy and are satisfied overall with the gathering’s final recommendations, which Pope Francis has formally adopted, a leading African prelate says. How the African Church would help shape the synod’s concluding assembly was one […]
