A suspected group of armed rebels from the Central African Republic killed three people in a village in neighbouring Cameroon and kidnapped seven others, the latest in a spate of cross-border attacks, Cameroon state radio said on Friday. Residents in Mbeng village said the attack took place early on Thursday when masked assailants entered the […]
Former US Senator and vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman has died at 82. The cause was complications from a fall, according to a family statement obtained by CBS News, The BBC’s US partner. The centrist represented the state of Connecticut in the Senate for nearly a quarter of a century. Mr Lieberman became the first […]
As news of a coup d’état in Cameroon spreads across the country, a source at the Unity Palace has informed the Cameroon Concord News Group that a cabinet reshuffle is on the horizon as members of the president’s inner circle start strategizing on how to grant the ailing and collapsing Biya a massive victory in […]
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has asked his Minister of Economy, Alamine Ousmane Mey, to source funding to the tune of €50 million for a video surveillance project with live facial recognition. In a decree signed recently, Biya authorized the minister to sign a loan agreement with the Hong Kong branch of Banco Santander for the […]
The trial for the killing of a popular Cameroonian journalist opened on Monday with 17 people in the dock, including an ex-secret service chief, but was immediately adjourned until April 15. The badly-mutilated body of reporter Arsene Salomon Mbani Zogo, known as “Martinez”, was found a few days after he was abducted in front of […]
At least seven separatist fighters have been killed in a military offensive in Cameroon’s war-torn English-speaking region of Northwest, security and local sources said Monday. Troops ambushed and raided a separatist hideout in the Tubah locality of the region Sunday, killing seven fighters, a military official in the region said. “They were notorious for terrorizing […]
Senegal opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye was set to be declared the country’s next president after his rival from the ruling coalition called him on Monday to concede defeat. Results trickling in since polls closed on Sunday evening in the first round of a delayed presidential election rapidly suggested Faye, 44, may have clinched an […]
As usual, there is news all over Cameroon on the possible replacement of Paul Biya, the country’s longest serving president in 2025. Mr. Biya has misruled the country for 42 years and he is slowly but surely yielding to the passage of time. Mr. Biya, who was considered by many in 1982 as a better […]
Senegal’s ruling coalition candidate Amadou Ba has called his rival, opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, to concede defeat in Sunday’s presidential election, government spokesman Abdou Karim Fofana told journalists on Monday. (Reuters)
It is becoming clear that there is a massive power vacuum in Cameroon as the country’s ailing leaders are incapable of making sound economic and political decisions which can help steer the country out of the mess for which the country is now noted. Though the country’s Territorial Administration Minister, Paul Atanga Nji, has, out […]
