A major player in electrification solutions in Africa, the French group Electricité de France (EDF) is continuing its “EDF Pulse Africa” (Tour) innovation competition, at the Star Land Hotel in Bonanjo, Douala (Cameroon), this Tuesday 19 October – after a first stage in Pretoria (South Africa). Embodying EDF’s commitment to Africa, this competition aims to […]
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Anastasie Obama, a Cameroonian woman who set up her own smoked shrimp business, has been recognized by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) as a Food Hero, for her contribution towards unlocking the potential of selling shellfish locally and abroad. Cameroon sits on the Atlantic coast where Western and Central Africa meet. It was […]
Authorities in English-speaking western Cameroon have appealed for calm after a policeman who killed a four-year-old schoolgirl was lynched by an angry mob. This comes just weeks after the new school year began in the troubled region, with students returning in large numbers for the first time in four years. The incident took place on […]
A Cameroonian woman who set up her own smoked shrimp business, has been recognized by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) for her contribution towards unlocking the potential of selling shellfish locally and abroad. Cameroon sits on the Atlantic coast where Western and Central Africa meet. It was named “Rio dos Camarões” or, “River […]
This was championed by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation through a conference that held in Yaounde on October 12, 2021. Ideas on ensuring the return to normalcy in the crisis-hit North West and South West Regions of the country have been exchanged by stakeholders engaged in peacebuilding. This was during a conference organised in Yaounde […]
14 oct. 2021 11:16 For those dealing in agricultural chain produce in the small and medium-sized enterprises to benefit they will have to group themselves into Common Initiative Group and NGOs. Cameroon Bank for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises has presented it Agro Window scheme to agricultural cooperatives, small and medium-sized enterprise, small-scale production units and […]
The Ministers of Finance and Decentralisation and Local Development in a joint circular letter have given guidelines for the preparation of the budget for 2022 financial year. Cameroon’s government local public actions for the 2022 financial year are focused on deepening and accelerating the decentralisation process, promoting local development, as well as strengthening local governance. […]
External Relations Minister, Mbella Mbella led the Cameroonian delegation. Within the framework of enhancing bilateral and multilateral cooperation ties, the Minister of External Relations, Mbella Mbella led a Cameroonian delegation to Serbia to participate in deliberations and commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which held from October 11 to 12, 2021 […]
Yaounde — The commander of multinational troops fighting Boko Haram has said at least 3,600 of the militants have surrendered since August. Nigeria-born Major General Abdul Khalifa Ibrahim spoke Sunday at the end of a visit to Cameroon. General Ibrahim, commander of the four-nation Multinational Joint Task Force Commission, or MNJTF, says the number of […]
Although a minority in Cameroon, the anglophone community, which makes up 20 percent of the west African country’s population, is emerging as a force in the film industry. Now dubbed Collywood, four films have already been selected by Netflix, the movie streaming platform giant. “It was a long fight to actually get Amazon to accept […]
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, and seven other governors within the Lake Chad Basin, on Monday, met in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to discuss regional security cooperation and the path to improve stability. The region as a result of the recession of Lake Chad and subsequent impoverishment, has been fraught with Boko Haram for over a […]
These clashes must be prevented from taking on a regional dimension, as happened with terrorism and organised crime. The Lake Chad Basin region is plagued by insecurity. In addition to the terror inflicted by Boko Haram, organised crime and kidnappings for ransom in the area, it’s feared that Cameroon’s community conflicts could spread, further destabilising […]
Welcome to allAfrica’s Silencing The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. I am Mantsadi Sepheka from allAfrica and today our focus is Cameroon. The West African country has an escalating humanitarian crisis and is plagued by two violent conflicts. The main one being between government and separatists from the English-speaking minority. […]
INCESSANT attacks in Adamawa State and other parts of the North East has forced contractors to halt work on the Maiha-Fulbere-Zhedinyi-Pella Road, which would have provided a direct link between Nigeria and Cameroun. The work on the 86-kilometre road, the contract of which was awarded in 2007 by the Nyako Administration to a Nigerian road […]
In Cameroon there is growing awareness that there’s a direct relationship between illegal and unregulated activity in the fisheries sector, and maritime security in the waters off the country’s coast. Like most countries along Africa’s Atlantic coast, addressing illegal fishing and fisheries crimes is challenging for Cameroon. Earlier this year the European Commission called out […]
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Cameroon Humanitarian Crisis Worsens
The dust has settled on the ethnic clashes that recently left at least 12 people dead in northern Cameroon but humanitarian needs are escalating. Over a month after the land dispute featuring the Mouzgoum and Choa Arab communities in the Logone-Birni district in the Far North left another 100 people injured and an estimated 30 […]
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Cameroon: Pre-Emptive Responsibility
If nature cannot adapt to the whims and caprices of man, then it is left for man to readjust to the exigencies of nature. This is one of the main challenges environmentalists have not stopped reminding the population about. The inhabitants of some major cities and towns in Cameroon are surely experiencing the consequences of […]
Yaounde — Four-time African player of the year, Samuel Eto’o Fils has declared his interest in the presidency of the Cameroon Football Federation, Fecafoot. The former captain of the Cameroon national team, the indomitable Lions said his decision to seek elective post as president Fecafoot is motivated by “love for Cameroon and passion for our […]