The national football team coach Vincent Mashami is confident that Amavubi can get a crucial away win against Cameroon on Tuesday, March 30 and boost their chances of qualifying for the Africa nations cup for the second time in history A win against the Indomitable Lions who have already qualified for the continental showpiece would […]
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One year ago, Cameroon, Africa and the world lost a music legend. Cameroon would have been shaken with the calibre of people who would have come for the funeral of Afro-jazz icon, Manu Dibango, should he not have died of Covid-19. The legendary saxophonist — who was born Emmanuel N’Djoke Dibango — died on March […]
From 16 January to 7 February, Cameroon hosted the African Nations Championship. Some games were played in the town of Limbe in the South-West region, which is in the grip of an armed conflict between government forces and secessionist militias. The absence of secessionist violence during the championship may have given the impression that the […]
The 30-year-old began entertaining in primary school until he was encouraged to go professional. Kor Derick Ndikiter was born on November 28, 1991 in Mbaa village, Nkambe Central Subdivision, Donga Mantung Division of the North West Region. A Management and Entrepreneurship graduate of the University of Bamenda, “Mr. Ater, Da Contry Comedian,” or simply Ater, […]
The game played yesterday March 14, 2021 in Yaounde within framework of the second day ended 3-2 in favour of the Mfou Club. Apejes of Mfou has begun the elite one professional football championship on good footing. With its first programmed match with Coton still on the wait, the boys from Mfou in their first […]
The renowned medic and former health consultant to several organisations was paid last respects in Yaounde on March 12, 2021. Academic honours were on March 12, 2021 offered to a deceased Professor of Public Health, Professor Emeritus Daniel Lantum, at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Yaounde I. The event […]
The 30-year-old began entertaining in primary school until he was encouraged to go professional. Kor Derick Ndikiter was born on November 28, 1991 in Mbaa village, Nkambe Central Subdivision, Donga Mantung Division of the North West Region. A Management and Entrepreneurship graduate of the University of Bamenda, “Mr. Ater, Da Contry Comedian,” or simply Ater, […]
The National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Social Democratic Front (SDF) took place in Yaounde on March 13, 2021. The Social Democratic Front (SDF), the hitherto leading opposition political party in Cameroon is planning to reconquer the territory it lost during the October 2019 presidential election as well as the twin elections of municipal […]
“You’re My Rock,” which was released in late 2020, talks about hope for suffering people. Gospel artiste, Nying Stella Ging epouse Seh, or Mother Stella, released her first album, “Jesus in fashion” in 2009. Stella, 38, an accountant, freelance translator and wife to a Baptist pastor, Seh Clarence, on January 29, 2021 in Yaounde launched […]
The Head of Government Joseph Dion Ngute chaired the Inter-ministerial meeting devoted to the evaluation of the response strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic on March 12, 2021. In the face of the continuous upsurge in the contamination rate of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister, Head of Government, Joseph Dion Ngute has given specific instructions to […]
Ben Zolo Pichichi’s latest master single, which stresses peaceful co-existence, was released on December 25, 2020. “No matter what happens, we must learn to live together,” says artiste Kinang Seidou Nfor, better known as Ben Zolo Pichichi. Referring to his December 2020 single entitled “Ngarbuh,” he says the February 14, 2020 killings in Ngarbuh community […]
Recent kidnapping, killings highlight ongoing violence Armed separatists kidnapped John (not his real name), a medical doctor in Cameroon’s English-speaking North-West region, on February 27 and took him to their camp. They accused John of “not contributing to the struggle,” pointed a gun at his back, and threatened to kill him. He was released six […]
Cameroon is dealing with a deadly though insufficiently reported civil war in its two English-speaking (minority) regions of the North-West and South-West. Since 2017, Anglophone separatists have been fighting for a new “Republic of Ambazonia“, derived from the Ambas Bay area in the Gulf of Guinea. On 10 January 2021, Cameroon’s soldiers killed at least […]
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Cameroon’s Cycles of Violence
Over the past four years, Cameroon’s Anglophone regions have been caught in a deadly cycle of violence that led to a major humanitarian crisis, with almost 700,000 people displaced and three million in need of aid. Human Rights Watch estimates that violence has claimed over 3,500 lives since late 2016. The crisis has been characterized […]
20 Women Raped During March 2020 Attack in Ebam An attack by Cameroonian soldiers on March 1, 2020 has come to light in which soldiers raped at least 20 women, including four with disabilities, arrested 35 men, and killed one man, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack on the village of Ebam in the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the gradual return of Nigerian refugees in Cameroon, Niger and Chad to the country from February 27, 2021. The Federal Commissioner of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI), Senator Basheer Garba Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement yesterday. Mohammed said that the commission has commenced […]
Cameroon’s young Indomitable Lions have already booked a ticket to the quarter finals of the Total Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations with an assured spot on top of Group A. When they face bottom side Mozambique on Saturday at the Stade Cheikha Ould Boidiya in Nouakchott, they will be out to ensure a 100pc record […]
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines will be shipped through the Covax scheme. The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved two versions of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, clearing the way for the vaccines to be shipped to African countries through the Covax scheme. Covax is a global initiative in which countries pool their resources to […]