The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a €63.09 million loan to Cameroon to promote entrepreneurship and improve skills to match industry needs. Multinational partners, the private sector and the Cameroonian government will contribute approximately €2 million to the project cost, estimated at €64.93 million. Covering five of Cameroon’s regions […]
On July 13, 2023, the 2024 budget preparation workshop was officially opened, in Yaoundé, by Finance Minister Louis Paul Motaze. During his opening address, he described national and international uncertainties that could lead to a significant drop in Cameroon’s oil revenues in 2024. “(…) The uncertainties weighing on the global economy call for caution regarding […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday he felt “very well” after being admitted to hospital for dizziness, with his office saying the politically and legally beleaguered 73-year-old had likely been dehydrated. Netanyahu had been rushed to Sheba medical centre in the afternoon, his office said of Israel’s largest hospital, located near Tel Aviv, noting […]
The conflict in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions may be simmering down but the suffering of internally displaced persons (IDPs) is only getting worse. While the guns are no longer as violent as they used to be in the two English-speaking regions, the hardship which is stalking IDPs is not letting up. There are real issues, […]
The International Criminal Court has launched an investigation into a surge of hostilities in Sudan’s Darfur region since mid-April, including reports of killings, rapes, arson, displacement and crimes affecting children, the top prosecutor told the United Nations on Thursday. The regular army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been battling in the capital Khartoum […]
Simon Ateba, a Cameroon journalist who is owner of news site Today News Africa, was issued a formal warning by the White House over disruptions at news briefings, with the press office saying in a letter he is at risk of losing his entry pass to the grounds. The White House press office on Wednesday […]
At least five separatist fighters have been killed in military offensives in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone regions of Northwest and Southwest, military and local sources said on Thursday. The raids occurred late Wednesday in the Ndop locality of the Northwest Region and Foe Bakundu village of the Southwest Region. In Foe Bakundu, security forces ambushed and […]
A good number of internally displaced girls and women from crisis-hit regions of Cameroon are increasingly being tricked into sex work by men working in popular bus parks in the towns they are fleeing to. There, they face violence and crackdowns. In May 2018, Gisela, 28, left her home in Mbaingo in Cameroon’s northwestern region […]
A group representing amateur clubs in Cameroon has called on legendary former player Samuel Eto’o to resign from his post as president of the country’s football federation, citing “grave irregularities” in the organisation. Last week, Cameroon’s Amateur Clubs’ Association (ACFAC) voted 11-1 in favour of asking the four-time African Footballer of the Year to stand […]
Carlo Ancelotti will stand trial for tax fraud after the Real Madrid coach allegedly failed to declare image rights earnings in 2014 to the Spanish tax office. A Spanish judge said Ancelotti had “acknowledged” the actions which deprived the country’s treasury of 386,361 euros ($428,000), in a court document seen by AFP on Wednesday. “It […]
