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Cameroon withdraws from Rugby World Cup Qualifiers
Cameroon, due to lack of funds, will not take part in the seven-team rugby tournament, to be held 30 October - 1 November in...
Top Cameroonian gendarme killed in ambush
A senior Cameroonian gendarme, Captain Felix Leuy Tah of Mayo-Kani, extreme-north of Cameroon, was shot dead on Tuesday, official sources said on Wednesday. According...
Pope Benedict XVI set to visit Cameroon and Angola in 2009
Pope Benedict XVI will visit Cameroon in March 2009 as part of an African tour which will also take him to Angola, a statement...
Cameroonian football goes professional
Professional football will be deep rooted in Cameroon by the year 2010, if a programme set up by the Cameroonian Football Federation (FECAFOOT) is...
Ex Cameroonian government official arrested for embezzling over US $300 million
Jean Dieudonne Ndoumou, former subprefect of Kribi in southern Cameroon, currently serving at the prime minister's office, has been detained at the Kribi prison...
Cotonsport and Al Ahly qualify for next stage of MTN CAF champions league
Cotonsport of Cameroon on Saturday crushed Dynamos FC to reach the finals of the African Champions League. The Cameroon side, became the ...
Dynamos and Cotonsport clash in CAN / WC qualifiers
Dynamos FC of Zimbabwe and Cameroonian champions, Cotonsport Garoua will clash in a do or die game. The match kicks off this...
Dynamos flogged by Coton Sport
Zimbabwe's Dynamos Football Club lost 1-0 at home to Coton Sport of Cameroon in a Champions League semi-final, first-leg match played Sunday in Harare.
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Mugabe meets Dynamos amid rumours of CAF bias towards Cotonsport
President Mugabe on Friday said took time to meet with the entire Dynamos FC team at state house and urged them to win...
Dynamos accuse ZIFA of spying ahead of match with Cameroon
As Dynamos FC of Zimbabwe's prepares to do battle with Cameroonian champions Cotonsport Garoua it has accused top Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) offcial of...
Zimbabwe team appeals to sell tickets in US dollars
Dynamos FC, a surprise Caf Champions league semi finalist have applied to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe for permission to sell tickets for their...
Bakassi returnees overwhelm Nigerian gov’t amid Cameroonian persecution fears
The Nigerian government has announced it is unprepared for the tens of thousands of returnees who have fled the southern Bakassi province over the...
Dynamos only two steps away from FIFA Club World Cup in Japan
ZIMBABWE champions Dynamos set up a semi-final Africa Champions League match against Coton Sport of Cameroon after a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Zamalek at...
African MPs to meet in Cameroon
The third consultative meeting between regional communities and African parliaments opens on Tuesday in Yaounde, the political capital of Cameroon. The meeting to be...
Cameroon L1 national football championship scheduled to kick off
Cameroon's L1 national football championship for the year 2008-2009 will kick off 27 September with 16 teams vying for honours, according to a statement...
Fuel tanker explosion kills several people in Cameroon
At least 10 people were killed and 18 seriously injured when a fuel tanker in northern Cameroon has overturned and exploded in Limani, a...
Françoise Mbango Etoné consoles Cameroon football enthusiasts
The streets of Douala were flooded with Cameroonians, Sunday night, celebrating the women’s triple jump gold medal at the Beijing Olympic Games by Francoise...
Football : Brazil kicks Cameroon out of Beijing Olympics
Brazil stayed on course for an Olympic soccer gold with an emphatic 2-0 win over Cameroon in their quarter-final clash Saturday. The two goals...
GTV pay television service launched in Cameroon
Life just got better… Across Cameroon this morning thousands of people are waking up to a revolution in affordable quality entertainment. The hotly...
Bakassi peninsula officially Cameroonian
Nigeria Thursday fully transferred its administrative authority over the Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, in line with the 2002 ruling of the International Court of...
Bakassi peninsula finally goes to Cameroon
Describing the process as ''very painful for all'', Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has assured that the planned handover of the resource-rich Bakassi peninsula to...
Football : Three African teams in Beijing Olympics quarter-final
Former Olympic men’s football gold mediallists Cameroon have been joined by Nigeria and the Elephants of Cote d'Ivoire to advance to the quarter-final of...
Football Beijing Olympics : Nigeria and Cameroon advance to quarter finals
Former Olympic men's football gold mediallists Cameroon and Nigeria have advanced to the quarter-finals of the event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Cameroon played goalless...
Court pays heed to indigenes, military and parliament as it stops Bakassi handover
In a new twist to the saga of Nigeria's hand over of the resource-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon, a court in Nigeria has stopped...
Homophobia is fueling HIV spread in Africa
The persistent and increasing outbreaks of violence against members of the gay community in Africa are jeopardising efforts undertaken to combat HIV, both within...
Cameroon : Ban on radio stations lifted but only just …
Cameroonian authorities have lifted a ban on three private broadcasters summarily closed in connection with their critical coverage in February, but police are withholding...
Eto’o won’t leave Barca
Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o is yet to decide whether to stay at Barcelona or switch clubs.
Eto'o, speaking Monday at the launch of the 10/10...
Vatican names a new Bishop for Cameroon
The Vatican has named Monseigneur Joseph Befe Ateba bishop of the new diocese at Kribi, in the south of Cameroon, a reliable ecclesiastical source...
Samuel Eto’o revels in ill temper and disrespect towards Africans
There is no end in sight in the neo aggressive behaviour of Cameroon and FC Barcelona star, Samuel Eto’o. Recently, during a Press conference...
Football : Cameroon Olympic Team meets Japan
The Olympic team of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroons left France Saturday night, for Japan. While in the land of the rising sun, the...