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 […]
Social workers, and friends and family of the people who died in the building fire in Al Ras worked all through the night to identify their bodies and do the necessary paperwork. “I went home at 5am but I had to return because I was the central point of contact for everyone coming,” said social […]
The European Space Agency’s JUICE mission to explore Jupiter’s icy, ocean-bearing moons will blasted off on Friday, a day after the first launch attempt was called off due to the threat of lightning. The spacecraft was launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 12:14 GMT, 30 seconds earlier […]
Three years after it got suspended from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) by the Trump administration, the Cameroonian government entered talks with the US, under the new administration, for its reintegration. As a reminder, the suspension was pronounced in October 2019 when the then-US President, Donald Trump, accused Cameroon of “persistent gross violations […]
French first lady Brigitte Macron turns 70 on Thursday, but don’t expect her to talk about it. “Wait for April 13, 2023 when I’m going to be 70,” she told women’s lifestyle magazine S in January with barely disguised dread about the coming flood of news articles. “You’re going to hear about it, I’m sure. […]
Pop diva Celine Dion announced the release of new music on Thursday — her first since revealing last year that she was suffering from a rare neurological disorder that was affecting her singing. The new album “Love Again” is the soundtrack for a film of the same name, and contains five new songs as well […]
There is no challenge greater than living as a desperate old person in any part of the world. This is all the more true in Cameroon where there are no social safety nets for the elderly and the country’s government is not in any haste to change things for the elderly, most of whom live […]
The bridge over the Logone River, which links the Cameroonian town of Yagoua and the Chadian town of Bongor, is scheduled for completion in 2024. Works are already 43% completed, the Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, said following a recent site visit. “We are doing everything possible to complete the works and deliver […]
Hospitals in Cameroon are reporting an increase in cases of river blindness, a parasitic disease caused by bites from infected blackflies. Hundreds of aid workers have been dispatched to remote, riverside villages to encourage those infected to seek treatment. In Sa’a district, 74 kilometers north of Cameroon’s capital of Yaounde, 45-year-old Jean Christophe Onana says […]
Southern Cameroons exiled leader Dabney Yerima has said that very harsh and crushing punishment from all Ambazonia self defense groups awaits troops still loyal to the occupying regime in Yaoundé over its barbaric violence in Southern Cameroons. Dabney Yerima made the remark during a conversation with Cameroon Concord News on Monday. Yerima observed that in […]
