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Cameroon” Health of three journalists deteriorating in Kondengui prison
Reporters Without Borders today voiced its fears for the health of three editors who have been held in Kondengui jail in Yaoundé since 10...
Cameroon: Chinese Ambassador Assures Stronger Ties
H.E. Xue Jinwei, paid a maiden visit to the Yaounde Gynaeco-Obstetric and Paediatric Hospital yesterday.
It was an exceptional day at the Yaounde Gynaeco-Obstetric and...
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...
Cameroonian security agents detain 2 journalists
Security agents in Cameroon have detained two journalists since Friday in an apparent effort to learn the source of a purported memo from the...
Miss Model of The World: A Franco-African wins the coveted title
Last Thursday, 20 year old Emene Nyame was crowned Miss “Model of the World” She is one of the rare beauties to have won...
Football Cameroon-Morocco: Rigobert Song leads Indomitable Lions to South Africa 2010
The Indomitable Lions assured themselves a place in South Africa 2010 World Cup with a 2-0 win over the Atlas Lions of Morocco in...
Gabon: André Mba sought coup support from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon…
Francis Sala Ngouah Beaud, a journalist and former member of Andre Mba Obame’s (who came in second in the August 30 election) campaign team,...
Cameroon: Paul Biya’s holiday bill thirty times more than Barack Obama’s?
Paul Biya, President of Cameroon, is at the centre of a scandal over an unusual and ludicrously costly summer vacation in La Baule, France....
Cameroonian government closes a private radio station
Sky Radio One FM a private radio based in Yaoundé, Cameroonian capital, was closed Monday by the police, for "multiple violations", the Minister of...
AIDS: Gorillas an HIV vector?
After chimpanzees, gorillas have also been proved as HIV carriers. The results were released by a team of French virologists, states Nouvelobs.com. The researchers...
Chad-Cameroon oil-pipeline is not helping the fight against poverty
According to four NGOs, a Chad-Cameroon project initiated by the World Bank (WB) connecting the oil fields of Doba in southwest Chad to the...
Football: Paul Le Guen in Cameroon
The french coach of the Cameroon national football team, Paul Le Guen, arrived Saturday in Yaounde to sign his contract, Eurosport reports. Officially, his...
Cameroon: hostages abducted in Bakassi released for a ransom
Four foreign employees of a service company in the oil sector, abducted mid-March off the Bakassi Peninsula (southern Cameroon), have been released for a...
Chinese Kidnapping in Bakassi: Nigerian and Cameroonian rebels deny involvement
Nigeria's Niger Delta Militants have denied any involvement in the kidnapping of five Chinese fishermen in the Bakassi Peninsula, an area ceded by Nigeria...
Cameroon: A journalist gets “death threats” for publishing President Biya’s fortunes
Jean-Bosco Talla, publisher of a cameroonian weekly, Germinal, said Thursday that he has been getting "death threats" since June 26, Atlas Vista has reported....
Cameroon-France: President Paul Biya enters corruption hall of shame
The Catholic Committee against Hunger and for Development (CCFD Terre solidaire) Wednesday published a new study highlighting the embezzlement of public funds by heads...
Frustrated Cameroonian coach Otto Pfister calls it quits
Cameroon national coach, Otto Pfister, Wednesday sent his letter of resignation to the Minister for Sports and Physical Education, Augustin Edjo. The latter had...
Nigerian human parts trafficker arrested in Cameroon with human parts and skeleton
A Nigerian trafficker in human parts, Jakson Ekoule, was arrested in the Cameroonian town of Nkapa, about 20 kilometres from Douala, the country's economic...
Catholic Pope Benedict XVI condemns condom distribution to fight AIDS
Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday, on his way to Cameroon, that distributing condoms is not a solution to fight against the AIDS epidemic, the...
Cameroon: Trail of main opposition leader begins
The trail of main Cameroonian opposition leader, John Fru Ndi, began Wednesday in Yaoundé, after seven postponements. He is accused of complicity in the...
Cameroonian journalist thrown into jail despite ill health
Lewis Medjo, director of La Détente, a weekly Cameroonian journal was, Wednesday, sentenced to a three-year prison term alongside a 2 million FCFA (3000...
Single African currency: Experts to draw a roadmap
The African Union, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has said in a statement that economic experts, meeting in the Cameroonian capital, Yaounde, on 15...
Football: Kenya plays Cameroon in African Military Cup semis
Kenya's Ulinzi Stars Thursday face the African Military Cup CAMFOOT defending champions, Cameroon, in a semi-final match at the Nakivubo Stadium, Kampala, Uganda. The...
Mecca bound plane carrying several Cameroonians grounded after explosion
A plane carrying about 300 Cameroonian pilgrims has been grounded at the Garoua International Airport in northern Cameroon after an explosion was heard in...
Football: Bafana Bafana thrashes Cameroon in Nelson Mandela Challenge
South Africa's preparations for the 2010 World Cup received a major boost on Wednesday night when the team secured an impressive 3-2 win against...
Al Ahly of Egypt beats Coton Sport of Cameroon in CAF-MTN Champions League final
Al Ahly of Egypt Sunday won the CAF-MTN Champions League for the sixth time on a 4-2 goals aggregate, after playing 2-2 with Coton...
“Tribute to Miriam Makeba” from Manu Debango
Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango has paid a glowing tribute to South African singer Miriam Makaba, who died of heart attack last Sunday in Italy...
Cameroonians and Nigerian arrested for possession of US $100,000
A Nigerian and five Cameroonians were arrested Saturday in Kribi, southern Cameroon, for possession of fake US$ 100,000 and mercury, according to police sources....
Cameroonian-Arsenal player Alexandre Song Billong gets a three-match suspension and fine from FIFA
The disciplinary commission of world football governing body, FIFA, has handed Cameroonian player Alexandre Song Billong a three-match suspension and a 5,000 Swiss francs...