French football star Kylian Mbappe held talks with Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute on his intention to empower young people in the Central African nation. “We have many projects…for Cameroon, for the children. We are pushing hard for a bright future in Cameroon,” Mbappe told reporters after the meeting, here on Friday. “I came […]
A list of 67 suspicious transactions scheduled for investigation by Cameroon’s tax agency shows a total equivalent of $656 million in undeclared payments from state coffers to questionable business entities and individuals. The list, obtained by the Arizona Project team in Cameroon (see box at end of article), covers the period 2017 to 2021 and […]
More than 52 Cameroon government soldiers reportedly took part in an operation in Mejang, a village some few kilometers from Mbingo in Belo Subdivision on Tuesday July 4, 2023 in which eyewitnesses say resulted in the killing of several women including the Queen Mother of Mejang and an old blind granny. The soldiers speaking in […]
France’s star footballer Kylian Mbappé arrived in Cameroon to an ecstatic welcome from fans Thursday for a visit that includes charity work with deaf children and a trip to his father’s village. Many among the hundreds who greeted the 24-year-old forward were dressed in his Paris Saint-Germain team’s football jersey for the occasion. They excitedly […]
As the war in Ukraine rages on—and the West’s limited attention to Africa focuses on Sudan—the civil war in the Anglophone part of Cameroon meanders along. It continues into its sixth year without any sign of political settlement due not to Western indifference and inaction, but to Western diffidence and actions that send the wrong […]
Nine years of hard work and struggle against a backdrop of terrorism and extremism will climax on Saturday (8th July) when people of faith in Cameroon celebrate the consecration of their new cathedral built by Muslims as well as Christians. Bishop Bruno Ateba Edo of Maroua-Mokolo said the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin […]
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees, (UNHCR) has began verification of 18,000 Cameroonian refugees in Calabar, Cross River capital. The refugees who are camped in different locations in Cross River were asked to come with their fact sheets and other relevant documents to be verified as registered refugees. According to UNHCR, the verification is […]
UK-based security consultancy the EOS Risk Group has reported that two separate pirate attacks occurred within just hours of each other off the coastal city of Douala in Cameroon on Friday, June 30. At around 22:40 local time on Friday, while transiting the Wouri River near Douala, the Chinese-flagged fishing vessels Hai Lu Feng 13 […]
Vice president of the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) Henry Njalla Quan II on Tuesday resigned from his position after close to two years of service. “Today marks the beginning of a new chapter in my life. After hours of soul searching and deep thoughts, I have made a hard but natural decision to resign from […]
Security forces, separatist rebels and ethnic militiamen have committed “atrocities” in a troubled region in Cameroon, including executions, torture and rape, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Its report found new evidence of abuses in the country’s Northwest Region – one of two western regions where anglophone militants declared independence from the majority francophone state in […]
