Istanbul Basaksehir have announced the signing of Cameroon defender Aurelien Chedjou on a three-year deal. The 31-year-old Indomitable Lion has opted to join the 2016/17 Turkish top flight runners-up after reaching the end of his contract with city rivals Galatasaray. Chedjou, who has 50 international appearances for Cameroon and played at the 2010 and 2014…
Issa Hayatou, Carl Enow Ngatchu and Jules Mejime, all pioneer executives of the Cameroon National Football Academy, ANAFOOT, have been installed into office. Issa Hayatou, Carl Enow Ngatchu and Jules Mejime were installed as the Board chair, Director General and Deputy Director General respectively. Their installation on Monday, June 5 was conducted by Bidoung Mpkatt,…
Anglophones arrested in North West and South West regions in the wake of the ongoing anglophone crisis are staging a mass open-ended hunger strike aimed at protesting against “illegal arrest, deplorable prison conditions and an end to the practice of holding hundreds of detainees without charge.” In a letter dated June 5, addressed to the…
Pope Francis on Tuesday June 6, appointed Bishop Abraham Kome, Bishop of Bafang, as the apostolic administrator of the diocese of Bafia. Bishop Abraham Kome’s appointment, comes barely few days after the death of Bishop Jean Marie Benoit Balla, whose body was found in river Sanaga, two days after his disappearance. Born on July 2,…
Paul Eric Kingue, former Mayor of Njombe-Penja has announced his candidature for the 2018 Presidential election. He made the declaration over the weekend in a meeting in the port city of Douala. He is officially the presidential candidate for the New Cameroon Patriotic Movement, MPCN and says he will heal the sickness which he says…
Cameroon has arrested nearly 30 soldiers fighting the Nigerian terror group Boko Haram in the wake of their protest against their conditions that also demanded the payment of bonuses. The soldiers on Sunday “set about stopping traffic with barricades on national route number one,” the Defense Ministry said in a statement broadcast on state radio…
A handful of protestors claiming to be owners of land and property failed to unsettle the ceremony to lay the foundation stone of the Higher Technical Teachers’ Training College, HTTTC Kumba, on Friday, June 2. The protesters, about eight in number and who emerged from the Mahole neighbourhood at Three Corners Fiango, claimed they were…
Some four teachers and an ELECAM official, arrested as part of the crackdown during the current Anglophone civil disobedience action, have been given heroes’ welcome in Jakiri, following their release from detention in Yaounde. The four teachers, Aloysius Shiyla, Gilbert Tani; alias Great Khali, Hycinth Ayeni and Blaise Tangko, and the ELECAM official, were received…
Bernard Acho Muna, Barrister-at-Law cum Politician, says Federation is the only way through which Cameroon can remain truly united. Ben Muna, who is the son of one of the founding fathers of Re-unification, the late S.T Muna, also looks back at the rough road from Re-unification, through the socio-economic and political evolutions and mutations within…
The joint trial of the Archbishop of Bamenda, Mgr. Cornelius FontemEsua; Bishop of Kumbo, Mgr George Nkuo; Auxiliary Bishop of Bamenda, Mgr. Michael Bibi,and the Executive President of the Cameroon Baptist Convention, CBC, Godwill Chiatoh Ncham, which was supposed to begin at the Bamenda Magistrate Court today, Monday, June 5, has again been postponed again….
