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Canada: A cameroonian appointed Minister
Maka Kotto, a Cameroonian borned has been appointed Minister of Culture and Communication of Quebec. He became the first African-Canadian to reach this level...
Professor Gottlieb honored by Queen Elizabeth II
The Cameroonian Professor emeritus, Gottlieb Lobe Monekosso, former Minister of Public Health and Director of the World Health Organisation for Africa Region, has been...
EUROPA LEAGUE: PERFORMANCE OF AFRICAN
The small European Cup was played last thursday . The defending champion easily Athletico of Madrid won 3 goals 0 against...
European Champions league: Africans players performance on day 2
While the European Champions League resumed its rights Tuesday night with the first day of the group stages, Wednesday was marked...
The performance of africans on european champions league day 1
The European Champions league resumed on tuesday with his first day. As usual many African were concerned . Afrik-news.com...
Inch’Allah Opposition delivers Cameroon to Biya on a Platter of silver
Nothing about Biya came as a surprise prior or during this year’s presidential election – Last minute announcement of election date, constitution of the...
2011 Presidential Election in Cameroon: Context, Risk and Conflict Prevention
Recently, several conflicts occurred in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Ivory Coast because of election results that were not accepted by the voters. As a result...
Nicola Lo Calzo: Capturing Africa through the lens
With his striking portraits of Nigerians working and worshipping near the Niger River—a poignant photomontage entitled “Inside Niger”—award-winning 31-year-old Italian photographer Nicola Lo Calzo...
Cameroon president rushes back home after massive Bakassi abductions
Following the abduction of 11 government officials including Ayuk Edward Taku, Sub-Prefect for the Kombo Abedimo commune in the Bakassi Pennisula of Cameroon between...
Homosexuality: Tension between Cameroon and European Union
The European Union (EU) has given more than 300,000€ in funding for gay rights associations in Cameroon. Opposed to these grants, the government argues...
SIM card registration: A chance to formalize an informal economy, digitally
A growing number of sub-Saharan African countries – South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and more recently, Ghana – now require that...
Cameroon suffers huge shortages in essential commodities
After gas and fish, sugar seems to have disappeared from Cameroonian shelves. The depletion of stocks and as well as the absence of essential...
Untangling Central Africa for business
As the proper role of government continue to debated in much of the free world, Africans, and in particular Central Africans can only...
Chantal Biya says no to new Cameroon coach over sex scandal
Usually, you lose your job then your wife. Lothar Matthaus got it all wrong as his young wife had an affair which directly led...
AGOA: African business women at the forefront of trade
Thirty-four African women entrepreneurs are participating in the 2010 U.S.–Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum — better known as the AGOA Forum —...
Football: Danny Jordaan to wrestle CAF leadership from Issa Hayatou
The South African Football Association (Safa) has boldly indicated that it won’t hesitate to nominate World Cup Local Organising Committee CEO Danny Jordaan to...
Football: Who is Africa’s best Goalkeeper?
Who is the best among equals? The glorious times of the Songo'os, Zakis and Rufais are over. The elders have successfully passed on the...
Foreign coaches head home after World Cup
Carlos Alberto Parreira, Sven Goran Eriksson, Paul Le Guen, Lars Lagerback... Foreign coaches plying their trade in Africa with little success. Ghana is the...
Exit for Cameroon as Lions fail to roar
Nine points for the Netherlands, none for Cameroon. The so called Indomitable Lions head home empty handed after a disappointing run. Paul Le Guen...
Cameroon DR Congo plane crash victims found
A private jet that went missing while transporting a group of investors from Yaounde, Cameroon, to Yangadou, a small mining town in Congo was...
Mugabe, Zenawi, Bashir, Afwerki, Mubarak, Biya… World’s worst despots list
A United States based think tank, Foreign Policy/Fund for Peace has ranked President Mugabe as the second worse despots in the world after...
Cameroon establishes its own generic drug production unit
At a time when over seventy per cent of Africans still lack access to treatments against HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, among other diseases, Cameroon...
Cameroon go home
With both sides desperate for a win to boost their hopes of reaching the knockout stages, this Cameroon-Denmark turned out to be one of...
Japan tames Cameroon
Asian giants Japan have shocked African big guns Cameroon in the second game in Group E. The Indomitable Lions seem to be in control...
As the World Cup quest grips, who are the African players to watch?
Could an African team actually win the first African World cup? Why not? The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, the Nigerian Eagles, The...
Cameroon: A 50th independence anniversary amid joy and pain
Last week dignatories from around the world joined President Paul Biya to celebrate 50 years of independence in Cameroon. But beyond the pomp and...
Cameroon: World leaders and Nobel Peace Prize winners debate Africa’s future
“Africa is a sleeping giant that is about to be awoken” Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations told an audience in...
El Baredei: To dismiss Iranian nuclear agreement would be ‘a dead end street’
Mohamed El Baradei former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency today, in Cameroon, described the announcement by Iran that it will send...
Football: 2010 World Cup trials begin
The countdown is on! It is 99 days to the D-day, and the six African teams qualified for the FIFA World Cup 2010 are...
Eto’o and Adebayor dwarf Drogba in football’s top 50 earners
Cameroon's Eto'o, Togo's Adebayor, Mali's Kanouté and Ivory Coast's Drogba and Touré: Five African players have made it to the list of football's top...