A further 26 people have died in Cameroon’s ongoing cholera outbreak in the past two weeks, taking the overall death toll to 426, a health ministry official said on Thursday. The outbreak was declared in October 2021 and has seen a strong increase in cases since late March of this year after a period of […]
Sonko, 48, was accused of raping a woman who worked in a massage parlour in 2021, when she was 20, and making death threats against her. He denies wrongdoing and says the charges are politically motivated. A criminal court cleared Sonko of rape, but found him guilty of a separate criminal offence described in the […]
The Cameroonian government has obtained a €50 million (about CFA32.8 billion) loan from France to strengthen its fire department. Per the related deal signed yesterday, the terms of which remain undisclosed, the beneficiary will receive 227 new fire and rescue vehicles over the next few years. Alamine Ousmane Mey, the Cameroonian Minister of the Economy, […]
A soldier of the Francophone dominated elite force, Rapid Intervention Battalion; BIR was killed in an explosion in Mbengwi on Wednesday. Cameroon Concord News gathered that the BIR serviceman identified as Lieutenant Fabrice Boutou was killed when his vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) during an operation in Momo division. The IED, which […]
US rating agency Fitch, in a statement published Friday, has maintained Cameroon’s long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating at B and affirmed that the country has a stable outlook. The result followed a thorough evaluation of Cameroon’s issuer profile. The B rate is the second level of the highly speculative category on the Fitch rating scale, […]
Former Republican Vice President Mike Pence, who incurred Donald Trump’s wrath by refusing to support his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, is set to enter the 2024 presidential race against his former boss on 7 June, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. Pence will launch his campaign with a […]
Cameroon is about to secure a valuable partner for its National Development Strategy 2020-2030. Yesterday, the Minister of Economy (Minepat) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Zhu Chunyu, the CEO of the Silk Road Investment Fund (SRIF), an investment fund controlled by the Chinese government. The validation of the agreement will see Cameroon receive […]
Extremist fighters killed eight people including soldiers in multiple attacks in northern Cameroon on Tuesday, a regional official said. Fighters with Boko Haram killed three customs officers, three soldiers and two civilians in separate attacks in the towns of Mora and Zigage on the border with Nigeria, said Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of the region. “The […]
In Cameroon’s capital city Yaoundé lives a baker like no other. He did not want to be a baker, but circumstances forced him to become one to remain alive. Lambert Kehven did not dream of becoming a baker, but a journalist. He started working as a journalist in Kumbo in the Bui division in the […]
The plantation town of Mbanga in the Littoral region, 310 km from the capital Yaoundé, is known for its banana plantations. But that’s not why it was in the spotlight on June 10, 2020. A video with plantation worker Clement Ytembe Bonda had gone viral, and it was going to haunt him forever. It all […]
