Cameroon launched a three-week campaign Wednesday to increase blood donation as the Central African nation faces a severe blood shortage, said Dora Mbanya, director general of the National Blood Transfusion Center. Cameroon needs 400,000 blood bags annually, but only about 147,000 were collected last year, according to the Ministry of Public Health. During an event […]
The World Bank agreed to provide CFA184 billion to support the electricity sector recovery plan validated in Cameroon in February 2023. The good news was announced recently in Yaoundé during a high-level dialog between members of the government and representatives of the institution. Welcoming the initiative, Water and Energy Minister Gaston Eloundou Essomba said “The […]
South African mobile operator MTN Group (MTNJ.J) said on Wednesday that its Cameroon operations were threatened by the seizure of its bank accounts in the country as part of a dispute in which it plays no part. MTN Cameroon’s accounts with more than 14 billion CFA francs ($22 million) have been frozen by Cameroon court […]
Cameroon’s media regulator threatened on Tuesday to suspend distributors of television channels, particularly foreign ones that broadcast “scenes of homosexuality”, in a country that punishes same-sex relations with imprisonment. In a text entitled “Warning”, dated Monday and circulated in the media on Tuesday, the National Communication Council, a government body, stated that it had noted […]
The Vice President of the exiled Ambazonia Interim Government has insisted that the people of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia will not back down from ensuring that English speaking Cameroonians gain their independence despite the brutal French Cameroun military operations in the Southern Cameroons homeland. In a telephone conversation with Cameroon Concord News London Bureau […]
The death toll from a Nigeria riverboat disaster has risen to 106 people as rescue teams continued to search for more survivors, police said on Wednesday. The boat, carrying around 250 passengers travelling from a wedding, capsized in the early hours of Monday in north-central Kwara state. The accident was the latest boat tragedy in […]
The founder and long-standing leader of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), John Fru Ndi, passed away last night in Yaoundé. His death comes as a great loss to the country’s political landscape and marks the end of an era. In a statement released early this Tuesday, June 13, Joshua Osih, the party’s first vice-president, announced […]
Veteran Cameroonian opposition leader John Fru Ndi, who for decades fought to topple long-standing president Paul Biya at the ballot box, has died aged 81, his party said. Fru Ndi, who dominated the opposition in the Central African country for a generation and was arrested and kidnapped for his politics, had been suffering from a […]
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has granted Asylum Seeker Status to fourteen Cameroonian individuals who were held in St Kitts and Nevis after being rescued at sea in March 2023. According to the Ministry of National Security, the UNHCR granted this to Cameroonian people on June 8, 2023. As defined by the […]
Kylian Mbappe told Paris Saint-Germain on Monday that he would not be taking up an option to extend his contract until 2025, raising the spectre of him following Lionel Messi out of the club this summer. The 24-year-old France striker’s current deal expires at the end of next season, with the option of another year. […]
