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Cameroon's Bakary launches challenge to Biya in political shake-up

Cameroon's Bakary launches challenge to Biya in political shake-up

It would also mark a major political realignment in the northern regions — Tchiroma's home base — which has traditionally delivered strong support for Biya’s Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement (CPDM). Tchiroma is the leader of the Cameroon...

Matawalle Urges Military to Embrace Innovation, Strategic Foresight In tackling Insecurity

Matawalle Urges Military to Embrace Innovation, Strategic Foresight In tackling Insecurity

The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, has urged military authorities to shift their mindset to embrace innovation, sustainability, and strategic foresight in tackling emerging security threats in the country, as well as addressing...

Troops kill terror kingpins in Sokoto, Borno offensives

Troops kill terror kingpins in Sokoto, Borno offensives

In a significant breakthrough in the fight against terrorism, the troops have eliminated notorious Sokoto bandit kingpin, Yellow Danbokkolo and 10 Boko Haram terrorists in Borno. Troops of Operation Fasan Yama, during a fierce offensive in Eastern...

Matawalle to Military: Embrace Innovation, Strategic Foresight in Tackling Insecurity

Matawalle to Military: Embrace Innovation, Strategic Foresight in Tackling Insecurity

•Troops kill 10 terrorists, recover cache of arms, ammunition in northeast •Police apprehend three wanted bandits, kidnappers in Abuja, Kaduna Linus Aleke in Abuja The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, has urged military authorities...

Cameroonian, Dr Elombi, is President of ...

Cameroonian, Dr Elombi, is President of ...

He was appointed by shareholders of the African Export-Import Bank. The Cameroonian economist becomes the fourth leader to head the pan-African bank since its establishment in 1993. His term is set to begin in September 2025, succeeding Nigerian...

United States: Cameroonian-American, Dr Akwa-Tchoyi, breaking grounds in...

United States: Cameroonian-American, Dr Akwa-Tchoyi, breaking grounds in...

Her remarkable academic journey, undertaken after 24 years as a State Registered Nurse, has proven that there is no age limit to education. Dr Mary Akwa-Tchoyi embarked on her intensive return to academia in March 2019, a decision driven by a...

FIBA U19 World Cup Team USA vs Cameroon box score: Stats, game summary and more ft. Koa Peat

FIBA U19 World Cup Team USA vs Cameroon box score: Stats, game summary and more ft. Koa Peat

Team USA continued their domination in Group D of the FIBA U19 World Cup with a 129-70 win over Cameroon at the Lausanne Arena in Switzerland. This win also confirmed their number one spot in the group, as they prepare for the Round of 16. BYU...

Ahead of presidentials: ELECAM reveals voter register hits over 8 million

Ahead of presidentials: ELECAM reveals voter register hits over 8 million

He revealed the figures Saturday, June 28, in Yaounde. This was during the Second Ordinary session of the Electoral Board of ELECAM. Dr Enow Abrams noted that from January to June 26, 2025, some 373,588 new potential voters had been registered. He...

Military Kill 10 Terrorists In Gamboru Ngala, Recover Weapons

Military Kill 10 Terrorists In Gamboru Ngala, Recover Weapons

Troops on sustained clearance operations between Rann and Gamboru-Ngala in Borno State made contact with terrorists at a location near Manawaji, close to the Cameroon border. What followed was a fierce firefight and the military says ten...

Yaounde: CRADEC rallies stakeholders to ...

Yaounde: CRADEC rallies stakeholders to ...

It brought together Parliamentarians, members of the APNIFFT Caucus, representatives of the Ministry of Finance, decentralised collectivities, Civil Society Organisations, public finance experts among others. CRADEC officials the roundtable aimed...

Most Saint Lucian formerly enslaved people were Nigerians – Senate President 

Most Saint Lucian formerly enslaved people were Nigerians – Senate President 

President of the Saint Lucian Senate, Alvina Reynolds, underscored Nigeria’s and Saint Lucian ancestral links by quoting the result of a British census conducted on the island in 1815, which showed that most of the residents came from Nigeria. “Of...

What Nigeria, Cameroon must do to stop ISWAP’s expansion in Lake Chad basin

What Nigeria, Cameroon must do to stop ISWAP’s expansion in Lake Chad basin

Since 2021, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has intensified its footprint in Cameroon’s Far North Region through increased extortion of communities and a spate of brutal attacks on military barracks in Borno (Nigeria) and...

Lake Chad Basin governments should redouble efforts against ISWAP

Lake Chad Basin governments should redouble efforts against ISWAP

Lake Chad Basin governments should redouble efforts against ISWAP ISWAP’s hunt for resources is eroding the ability of communities in northern Cameroon to withstand economic hardship. Since 2021, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has...

Cameroonian Scientists Trained as Nation’s First Scientific Divers to Protect Marine Biodiversity

Photo: Newcasttle University June 30, 2025 Hour: 7:55 pm Following the United Nations Ocean Conference in France, three Cameroonian marine scientists have completed intensive training in scientific diving in Marseille, marking a milestone in the...

Starlink Resumes Talks with Cameroon for Official Market Entry

Starlink Resumes Talks with Cameroon for Official Market Entry

(Business in Cameroon) - A delegation from Starlink, the satellite internet provider owned by U.S. billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX, met with Cameroon's Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Minette Libom Li Likeng, on June 27, 2025. Sources...

Four Top Banks to Lead Cameroon's 200 Bln FCFA T-Bond Deal With Afreximbank

Four Top Banks to Lead Cameroon's 200 Bln FCFA T-Bond Deal With Afreximbank

(Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian subsidiaries of Societe Generale, Attijariwafa Bank (SCB Cameroun), and Ecobank, along with local bank Afriland First Bank, will lead a 200 billion CFA franc deal on the Bank of Central African States...

2025 presidentials: Implications of Tchi...

2025 presidentials: Implications of Tchi...

They chose dignity, resistance, and freedom. Not because they were many or powerful, but because injustice had become unbearable to them. They had neither tribe nor religion as their banner. They had only the nation, as faith and as a guiding...

How Arab monarchies enable Western aggression against defiant leaders

How Arab monarchies enable Western aggression against defiant leaders

For decades, the specter of a Third World War loomed large in my mind, fueled by youthful readings of Nostradamus’s prophecies and shaped by early global events when I was a student of Bayero University Kano (BUK). One defining moment was Saddam...

Troops neutralise 10 Boko Haram terrorists at Nigeria-Cameroon border

Troops neutralise 10 Boko Haram terrorists at Nigeria-Cameroon border

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have eliminated 10 Boko Haram terrorists during a recent offensive on the terrorists’ enclave between Rann and Gamboru Ngala, very close to the Nigeria-Cameroon border. This was as the military sustained its clearance...

Cameroonian marine conservationists trained as scientific divers

Cameroonian marine conservationists trained as scientific divers

Following the United Nations Ocean Conference in France, three Cameroonian marine scientists extended their stay to train as scientific divers in the city of Marseille. They are committed to protecting the Manyangé na Elombo-Campo national park,...

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