Thirty-three people have died in Cameroon’s biggest city after a four-storey building collapsed and fell onto another residential block, firefighters say. It happened early on Sunday morning in Douala’s Ange Raphaël neighbourhood and the cause is still not clear. At least 21 people have been injured, many of whom are receiving treatment at the nearby […]
Ever since Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin staged a mutiny in Russia last month, questions have been raised over the future of his group in Africa, the cradle of its wealth and notoriety. Prigozhin’s dramatic rebellion ended in a deal by which he was expected to move to neighbouring Belarus with some of his men. Details […]
Ambazonia Restoration Forces have ambushed a military convoy in Ekok, Eyumojock Sub Division in Manyu, on Monday, killing at least three soldiers. The attack would be the second against the military within a week as last Friday; one gendarmerie officer was killed in Otu a border settlement not far away from Eyumojock town. According to […]
President Biya and wife Chantal have landed back in Yaoundé after he reportedly took part in a summit in France a month ago. Photos shared on social media on Tuesday showed a beaming Biya dressed in a blue suit outside the arrivals section of Nsimalen International Airport. Biya and his gang were received at the […]
Paris Saint-Germain have given Saudi club Al Hilal permission to speak to Kylian Mbappe after tabling a world record 300-million-euro ($333 million) bid, a source close to the negotiations told AFP on Monday. The Riyadh-based club has made a formal offer by letter, the source said, but such a transfer could only be made with […]
Last-ditch efforts to reach a compromise dragged into the night as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to put a key plank of his government’s controversial judicial reforms to the vote Monday after undergoing surgery to fit a pacemaker. Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Jerusalem to oppose Netanyahu’s proposal to curb […]
At least 16 people have been killed and nearly three dozen injured after a four-storey building collapsed onto a smaller one in Cameroon’s largest city, according to authorities. “The casualty figures may be higher”, said Samuel Dieudonne Ivaha Diboua, governor of Cameroon’s Littoral region, where the city Douala is located. The commercial centre is 210 […]
A four-storey building collapsed in Cameroon’s commercial capital Douala, killing at least 12 people and injuring others, the regional governor said on Sunday. The building, located in the city’s eastern Ange Raphael neighbourhood, caved in around midnight. “Twelve died and the others are in hospital for medical attention,” the governor of the surrounding Littoral region […]
President Biya’s end is very near and his fall will be sudden, swift and bloodless. It is more than a month ever since the 90-year-old travelled to France from where he reportedly fired General Ngambou Esaïe after the soldier man warned Minister Paul Atanga Nji that he was walking on broken bottles. We of the […]
Cameroon’s North-West and South-West Regions are experiencing a severe humanitarian crisis: more than 630,000 people are internally displaced, and more than 86,000 people have taken refuge in neighbouring Nigeria. The ongoing sociopolitical crisis in both regions led to violence that is affecting the local economy and people’s access to essential social services. Essential services and […]
