Second Vice Foreign Minister Kang In-sun has met with Cameroon’s Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute in the Central African country and discussed an upcoming leaders’ summit of South Korea and African nations, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Wednesday. Kang’s courtesy call on Dion Ngute on Tuesday (local time) came during her weeklong two-nation trip as a […]
Hundreds of thousands of workers across Cameroon are observing International Labor Day on May 1 by marching against abuses they say include illegal dismissals and failure to pay the $70 monthly minimum wage, even as the cost of living increases. Trade unions say tens of thousands of trained teachers, doctors and nurses have fled the […]
Rwanda must end support for M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and withdraw its troops from its neighbour’s territory, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. “We argue for territorial integrity on the African continent as well” as in Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Macron told a joint press conference with DRC […]
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$ 1.2 million contribution from the Government of Japan to support 36,200 crisis-affected people in Cameroon. The contribution will allow WFP to provide an unconditional food assistance package that includes cereals, pulses, vegetable oil and salt to refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host populations and […]
At least four people were killed in a road accident overnight into Monday in Cameroon’s commercial hub of Douala, according to local authorities and witnesses. Witnesses said the accident occurred when a speeding bus lost control and crashed into a taxi that was carrying passengers. “The bus driver was driving very fast and apparently lost […]
In the forthcoming presidential elections in 2025, the front runner is a 94 years old sickly candidate who has been in power for close to 50 years and is the only leader the youth have known in many generations. The image of him presented by the state-controlled media is far from reality, that of a […]
Heavyweight boxer Francis Ngannou’s 15-month-old son Kobe has died. The former UFC champion posted on X on Monday night: “Too soon to leave but yet he’s gone. “My little boy, my mate, my partner Kobe was full of life and joy. Now, he’s laying without life. I shouted his name over and over but he’s […]
This summer’s meeting between YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul and former world champion Mike Tyson has been officially sanctioned as a professional fight. It means the outcome of the bout, which is scheduled to take place in Texas on 20 July, will appear on both their records. Tyson, whose professional career ended in 2005, most recently competed […]
Gunmen have killed at least four fishermen in a raid at a river in Waza, situated in Lake Chad in Cameroon’s Far North Region, local and security sources said on Friday Suspected members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) were responsible for the “abominable act” which took place on Thursday, residents and military […]
Pastores dabo vobis, iuxtacor meum, the Lord says to the Prophet Jeremiah (Jer. 3:15) – I will give you shepherds after my own heart! Bishops are primarily, pastors, successors of the apostles. That is how the Catholic tradition understands them. And this process of self-understanding, of ecclesial maturation, has unfolded in the Church’s long history. […]
