Six years since weeping over a lost match, Manantsop Delisle, 14, is excelling at a Cameroonian tennis academy for underprivileged young players whose founder offered her free training after being impressed by her dedication to the game. Now she wakes up at 5 a.m. every day to start a round of workouts, practice sessions, and […]
A lot of tongues have been wagging on what caused Saturday’s dramatic explosions in Bonaberi and Bonanjo in Douala the economic capital. Cameroon Intelligence Report chief correspondent in Douala noted that there are plenty of theories, not all of them very credible. Yaoundé was quick to report that the bomb attacks were carried out by […]
Vinicius Junior said La Liga “belongs to racists” after suffering vile abuse on Sunday during Real Madrid’s 1-0 defeat at Valencia. The 22-year-old Brazilian winger faced off with home supporters and pointed directly to one after racist insults during the second half. Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said he heard monkey chants near the start […]
Cameroon has been celebrating 51 years as unified nation with a military and civilian parade on National Unity Day in its capital Yaoundé. For all but 10 of those years it has been ruled by just one man, President Paul Biya. And at 91 years old he is now the oldest head of state in […]
Three men died Sunday in an assault rifle attack in the French port city of Marseille, which has seen a surge of drug-related gang murders in recent months, police said. The three were part of a group of five men in their 20s who left a nightclub shortly after 5:00 am (0300 GMT) and were […]
Air strikes hit outer areas of the Sudanese capital Khartoum overnight and on Saturday morning, as fighting that has trapped civilians in a humanitarian crisis and displaced more than a million entered its sixth week. The fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has led to a collapse in law and […]
The recent announcement by the attention-seeking Fai Yengo Francis that 18 Ambazonia fighters have surrender to Cameroon government forces not only failed to advance the sinister goals of the Biya French Cameroun regime in Yaoundé but laid bare deep divisions and dissensions in the entire Biya cabinet. It was evident when Etoudi ordered the arrest […]
More than 100 people in central Nigeria have died in several days of intercommunal violence that have destroyed hundreds of homes and caused thousands to flee, local officials said on Friday. The clashes between cattle herders and farming communities in Plateau State are the worst in years in a region that has long struggled with […]
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 […]
