Energy provider Eneo Cameroon has warned users that it would implement a planned power cut across most areas of Yaoundé 06:30-18:30 May 21. The interruption is to allow technicians to undertake improvements to the electricity network. Details on the affected areas, duration of power cuts were not made public. Traffic disruptions are possible in affected […]
Officials in Cameroon have shut down markets in an attempt to stop a wave of cholera infections spreading through all 10 regions of the central African state. The government says more than 20,000 people have been infected, but the figures may be higher as a majority of the country’s 26 million people do not go […]
According to the Ministry of the Economy’s report, Cameroonian economic operators spent CFA23.6 billion on imported secondhand clothing during the first 10 months of 2022. This represents a decline of 16.4% compared to the corresponding period in the previous year. The amount spent between January and October 2022 allowed the acquisition of 48,191 tons of […]
After Philadelphia 76ers centre Joel Embiid finally achieved his dream of becoming the NBA’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) earlier this month, he said he wanted to inspire people across his native Cameroon and the wider continent. “I have always felt like I was a role model, especially to my Cameroonian and African people,” he told […]
World leaders landed Thursday for a Group of Seven meeting in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, with Russia’s war in Ukraine expected to be high on the agenda. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida kicked off his summit diplomacy by meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden after his arrival at a […]
Sierra Leone’s president expressed hope that a new African mediation mission would help end Russia’s war in Ukraine which has hit hard among the “poorest of the poor” around the world. Julius Maada Bio told AFP the war had wreaked havoc in his country and other places. “We are all suffering as a result of […]
Jean Marc Mpay, Cameroon’s former ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, has died aged 78. Jean Marc Mpay’s death was confirmed by the Cameroon embassy in Berlin following media reports which claimed he had suffered a stroke while in Yaoundé, the nation’s capital. Paying tribute, Chief Ashu Peter Ashman former CPDM Sub Section president […]
France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his case on Wednesday against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence peddling at the Paris Court of Appeals. The court upheld a sentence of three years with two years suspended; he will wear an electronic bracelet for the remaining year instead of going to prison. Sarkozy has vowed […]
The general management of Touristique Express received the good news today that the suspension imposed on the company last week by the Minister of Transport, Jean Ernest Ngallé Bibéhé (photo) has been lifted. The lifting of the sanction was made public in a statement issued by the government official. “The Minister of Transport has decided, […]
Since 2017, Cameroon has been engulfed in a bloody civil war that has claimed more than 6,000 lives, forced more than 1 million people to flee their homes and left nearly 4 million people dependent on humanitarian assistance. Diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict have repeatedly failed, most recently in January, when a Canada-backed initiative […]
