One soldier has been killed and three others wounded in an attack by the terrorist group Boko Haram in the Far North region, local and security sources said Monday. The attack took place overnight into Monday in Zeleved and Krawa-Mafa villages of the region where a military post is located. “They were heavily armed and […]
In his December 31, 2022 end-of-year address to the nation, Cameroon’s President, Paul Biya, announced that the country’s civil servants would be blessed with a 5.2% salary increase in the New Year. Instead of triggering excitement and celebration, the president’s announcement was as unpopular as himself. Indeed, the salary increase was long overdue and when […]
Fighting continues between rival military factions in Sudan for a fifth day as a 24-hour ceasefire breaks down and the death toll rises to at least 270. Gunfire and explosions were heard on Wednesday in central Khartoum near the defense ministry compound and the airport, which has been fiercely contested between the Sudanese armed forces […]
48th Plenary Assembly: 16-22 April 2023 Archbishops and Bishops of Cameroon, The Secretary General NECC, Reverend Fathers and Lay collaborators at NECC, Dear Journalists, men and women of the Media, Ladies and Gentlemen, 1. “The Lord is Risen, Alleluia – Yes, He is truly Risen Alleluia1”. It is with this Easter refrain that I would […]
In 2019, Cameroon’s government acknowledged the Anglophone regions’ distinct identity by giving them Special Status. Yet this legal framework has not quelled the separatist rebellion. Would reforming it bring the parties closer to a settlement? The question is worth investigating. What’s new? In 2019, amid fighting with separatist militants in its two Anglophone regions, the North […]
The father of Cameroonian football legend Samuel Eto’o, who currently moonlights as president of the Cameroon Football Federation has died. David Eto’o, suffered a heart attack and was reportedly in a coma for several days before passing away on Monday 17 April 2023 in Douala. David Eto’o, an accountant by profession is known to the […]
Lawyer Akere Muna has filed three cases against the companies involved in the Glencore scandal. The aim is to find the perpetrators with whom the mining and trading giant has collaborated in the country. Akere Muna does not intend to give up the fight in the scandal for which the commodities trading giant Glencore was […]
The Chairman and Editor-In-Chief of the Cameroon Concord News Group has said that an uneasy calm now prevails in Southern Cameroons but French speaking Cameroonians are living in an unprecedented fear as Biya regime approaches its end. The Right Hon. Soter Agbaw-Ebai, a Cameroonian Journalist told Cameroon Concord News London Bureau that for the time […]
As the killings and maiming of innocent civilians in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions continue to play out, the Yaoundé government has instead decided to send a delegation to Washington D.C. to address the issue of the country’s eligibility for the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), an American program which aims at granting duty-free treatment […]
More than 100 political and civil society groups in Senegal on Sunday formed a coalition to oppose a third term for President Macky Sall. Ten months ahead of presidential elections, the coalition in a declaration called on Sall to respect the constitution and refrain from running for an “illegal and illegitimate” third term. The president […]
