Vera Songwe has been appointed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to his country’s highly prestigious Economic Advisory Council. This is an advisory body responsible for proposing guidelines on issues of openness to the ecosystem of members, employability and entrepreneurship, as well as societal issues. The renowned Cameroonian holds a doctorate in mathematical economics, a […]
The National AIDS Control Committee (NACC) shared updated data on Cameroon’s HIV/AIDS epidemic during a recent meeting in Yaoundé. Nearly 400,000 people in Cameroon are living with HIV, representing a 2.7% prevalence rate. Worryingly, children under 14 are the most affected group. The NACC emphasized that these figures will soon be updated as the government […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli regime’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant, over war crimes against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. The ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber I, composed of three judges, announced the sentence in a statement on Thursday, six months […]
Mali’s junta chief on Wednesday sacked civilian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga and the government, days after Maiga issued a rare criticism of the military rulers. “The duties of the prime minister and the members of the government are terminated,” said a decree issued by Colonel Assimi Goita and read out by the secretary general […]
Awa Fonka Augustine, governor of the West Region, announced on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, the end of rescue operations following the double landslide that struck the Dschang Cliff on November 5. “The searches are over,” he confirmed in statements reported by the national radio. According to him, rescue teams recovered 12 bodies from the debris, […]
Authorities in the Far North region have confirmed 27 cases of cholera, including the death of a five-year-old child in Maroua, the regional capital and administrative center of Diamaré. The announcement, made Monday by state broadcaster CRTV on its Facebook page, signals a worrying resurgence of the epidemic in the region, following an earlier report […]
On Tuesday 19 November 2024, Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute chaired a cabinet meeting. Cameroon Concord News understands the meeting focused on the presentation of the aggregates of the 2025 preliminary finance bill: its general configuration and the main thrusts of the public investment budget. Dion Ngute called on his government team to comply with […]
Six individuals have been arrested following the assault that claimed the life of a French woman on the night of November 13, 2024, on a public street in the Makéa neighborhood. The announcement was made at a press conference on November 15 by Samuel Dieudonné Ivaha Diboua (photo), the governor of the Littoral region. According […]
From November 4 to 8, 2024, Yaoundé hosted a seminar focused on countering threats posed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). This training, organized through a collaboration between the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, and the Cameroonian government, aimed to strengthen Cameroon’s response to terrorist risks impacting both its security forces […]
Ukraine has said it will never give in to Russia’s aggression as it marks 1,000 days since the Kremlin launched a full-scale invasion of the country. “Ukraine will never submit to the occupiers, and the Russian military will be punished for violating international law,” the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. Zelensky will later address a […]
