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By Basil K Mbuye African football legends have paid their last homage to 86-year-old Cameroonian saxophonist, Emmanuel N’Djoké Dibango aka Manu Dibango, who died in Paris, France after allegedly suffering from Coronavirus. The music icon, Manu Dibango, who died on March 24, was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played …

  africanews  | Despite preventive messages and recommendations announced by the Cameroonian government in dealing with the rising cases of the new coronavirus, many are not adhering to these measures. Notwithstanding the ban of more than 50 people at public places, this is not the case in Cameroon’s economic capital,Douala Few respect …

  (Reuters) Tatapong Beyala sets up her camera in a studio in Yaounde, Cameroon, surrounded by an all-women team of technicians, make-up artists and assistants. For the 27-year-old owner of Gurl Boss Productions, it is the perfect crew to take on the male-dominated world of film production in her central African …

Ahval  | Turkish authorities wrapped 47-year-old man in a plastic wrapping before sending him on a flight to his country of origin, Cameroon, France 24 news site reported on Saturday. Video footage of Emmanuel Fosso Someon Chedjou being treated as luggage by the airline’s officials ahead of Turkish Airlines TK667 flight on Jan. …

Bangalore Mirror  | Misusing the name of a city-based reputed urologist, a group of organised criminals suspected to be foreign nationals cheated more than 300 people by assuring them they would be paid Rs 4 crore for a kidney and asking them to deposit some money towards registration fees, hospital processing and …

YAOUNDE, Jan. 21 Xinhua  | Cameroonian troops on Tuesday rescued 24 school children held hostage by armed separatists in the country’s restive English-speaking region of Meme division, an official said. The children were kidnapped early Tuesday from their school in the southwestern city of Kumba and “taken to the forest where the camp …

RFI  | Imane Ayissi is the first sub-Saharan designer to show in the élite Paris haute couture week. Not only is he joining fashion’s crème de la crème, the Cameroonian couturier is shaking up the stereotype of African materials by refusing to use wax prints which he dismisses as “colonial”. The 51-year-old …

YAOUNDE, Jan. 20 Xinhua  | Cameroon National Gendarmerie said Monday it has bust a child trafficking ring that had been selling children from the country’s South region to buyers in neighbouring Equatorial Guinea. Last Friday, Cameroon gendarmes on a regular border patrol spotted a suspicious bus that was bound for Equatorial Guinea. The …

BUEA, CAMEROON VOA  | Large numbers of English-speaking Cameroonians who fled the separatist crisis that has killed more than 3,000 people in three years have been returning to their homes to celebrate the Christmas and New Year holidays. Their return however is limited to major English-speaking towns as their villages remain battle grounds …

Manlikeclix our Fashion forward man of Cameroon origin is the official Creative Director for Alessandro Veneto ! A Unique Fashion Brand in Florence – Italy.  News reaching our desk from a closed friend of him has it that, the young Cameroonian Entrepreneur and Fashion designer closed a deal last November 2019 …