Three aid workers with French NGO Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI) have been abducted in northern Cameroon, the humanitarian group said Thursday. The kidnapped aid workers are all Cameroonian nationals based in the northern city of Maroua, in one of the NGO’s three branches in the country. “Premiere Urgence Internationale confirms to its great regret that […]
Former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson says he has “best case a year” to live after being diagnosed with cancer. The 75-year-old Swede was the first foreign coach to manage England and led the side to the quarter-finals of the 2002 and 2006 World Cup and 2004 Euros. “I’m going to resist for as long as […]
The outstanding non-repaid bank credits of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (Cemac) reached CFA1,917.9 billion on December 31, 2022. These overdue bank credits have multiplied by 4 compared to their level ten years earlier (CFA495 billion at the end of December 2012), as revealed by the Bank of Central African States (Beac) in […]
Cameroon’s Minister of Secondary Education Pauline Nalova Lyonga has called for efforts to promote the use of textbooks written by Cameroonians for vocational education programs. She was speaking at a ceremony Wednesday to hand over textbooks on industrial techniques to some technical and vocational schools in the country. “The ceremony today is a clear sign […]
President Joe Biden was only told that US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin was being treated for cancer on Tuesday, the White House has said. Mr Austin, 70, was admitted to hospital on 1 January and then to the intensive care unit for complications following surgery in December. He has faced criticism for not telling senior […]
The United Arab Emirates banned ships arriving in its waters that sail under the flag of Cameroon — a move that distances the emirate from risky vessels that have been assembled to transport sanctioned oil. The Cameroon flag has been added to a restricted list and maritime companies and ship agents should not provide vessels […]
Bishop Emmanuel B. Bushu, who retired from the pastoral care of Cameroon’s Catholic Diocese of Buea in December 2019, has been prohibited from celebrating or concelebrating Holy Mass in public in the Cameroonian Episcopal See without the “explicit permission” of his successor. In a letter circulated on Sunday, January 7, the Local Ordinary of Buea […]
In a press release signed on 22 December 2023, Cameroon’s Acting Minister of Mines, Industry and Technological Development banned all artisanal and semi-mechanised mining activities beyond a depth of 30 metres. The measure is intended to protect not only the environment, but also human lives. Between 2015 and 2022, 205 deaths were recorded at mining […]
The biometric voter registration drive for 2024 in Cameroon has gone underway, with officials of the elections managing agency (ELECAM) hoping to take the voter registration figure to 7.5 million in total. The body says it registered 368, 119 new potential voters in 2023. This is the last full-cycle voter registration exercise before the central […]
The threat of violence remains high in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon as various armed groups heighten calls for secession. The separatists in the Southwest and Northwest regions are agitating for the independence of the so-called state of Ambazonia, which is unrecognised internationally. They allege marginalisation by the government of President Paul Biya, which they […]
