Cameroon has raised 550 million U.S. dollars from its international bond sale, Finance Minister Louis Paul Motaze has said. The bonds were issued “on favorable terms” during a three-day operation that ended Wednesday in London, the minister said. “The funds thus mobilized will make it possible to significantly continue the clearance of domestic debt in […]
Cameroonian authorities have released a young activist detained last week after posting a video on TikTok advocating democratic change in the country ahead of next year’s presidential election, his lawyers said. Barrister Akere Muna, lead lawyer for Junior Ngombe, 23, told the media in Yaoundé on Wednesday that the activist had been granted bail and […]
The first batch of long-awaited F-16 jets has arrived in Ukraine, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielus Landsbergis and a US official said on Thursday. Ukraine wanted the weapons because of their destructive power and global availability, and has been frustrated by the lengthy process to procure the US-designed aircraft and train its pilots to fly them. […]
Donald Trump has questioned Kamala Harris’ racial identity during a heated exchange at a convention for black journalists. Trump falsely claimed the vice-president and presumptive Democratic nominee had only emphasised her Asian-American heritage until recently when, he claimed, “she became a black person”. “I didn’t know she was black until a number of years ago […]
As the world prepares for the second Session of the Synod on Synodality that comes up in October this year, the Church in Africa is reflecting on the possibility of making the case for access to the diaconate for women in Africa. As part of a series of synodal conversations, Church leaders and lay Christians […]
Calling for political change can land you in jail in Cameroon, a country ruled by the same president for 42 years. On July 24, three men in plain clothes claiming to work for the intelligence services arrested Junior Ngombe, 23, a hairdresser and social media activist, outside his shop in Douala, a city in Cameroon’s Littoral […]
Israel and Hezbollah exchanged deadly fire on Tuesday, following a rocket attack from Lebanon on the Golan Heights that killed 12 children over the weekend and sent regional tensions soaring. The strike on the Druze Arab town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on Saturday, whose victims were aged between 10 and 16, […]
For decades, Manyu has been longing for an organization which can deliver hope to its people. Many Manyu organizations have risen and fallen, breaking the hearts of many development-oriented minds. When MOHWA rose from its own ashes like the proverbial Phoenix a few years ago, many were excited and the excitement was reinforced when MOHWA […]
Cameroon’s ailing President Paul Biya, has created jobs for members of his entourage without following proper procedures. The almost 92-year-old Biya, who has opted to humiliate himself all over the world, has transformed all those around him into caregivers and emergency workers without seeking their opinion. For many years now, Chantal Biya, the country’s first […]
French nuclear giant Orano ended the first half of the year with a loss of €133 million, weighed down by difficulties in its mining activities in Niger due to a “highly degraded” political context since a military regime came to power a year ago. At the end of June 2024, the group noted “the deteriorated […]
