Cameroon News
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The Cameroonian government has blacklisted Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, saying that he is an agent of Satan hoodwinking unsuspecting members of the public with “diabolical miracles”. Cameroon Foreign Affairs minister Henri Eyebe Ayissi, in an official communiqué he issued last week titled The Devil Is In the House, described TB Joshua as a
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Yaounde - Police in Cameroon arrested former prime minister Inoni Ephraim on Monday as part of an investigation into corruption, one of his lawyers said. "He has been placed in detention...," after having been questioned by an investigating magistrate, the lawyer, who asked not to be identified, told AFP. A source at the court said Ephraim, who served as prime
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Yaounde — Religious leaders in Cameroon usually don't get involved in electoral politics. But in early March, a group of Muslim and Christian leaders went to see the president of the elections governing body, saying they were fed up with previous balloting that included vote-buying, multiple voting and outright manipulation of vote totals. "It is our duty as servants of
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Ambam - Two women on trial in Cameroon for homosexuality pleaded not guilty on Thursday as their lawyers sought an annulment of the trial over alleged rights abuses. "Not guilty", said Esther, 29, and Martine, 26, whose full names are being withheld to protect them in a country where homosexuality is illegal. The two are charged with "having intercourse with
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Johannesburg - Soldiers in Cameroon are losing the battle to save the last elephants in a remote frontier park from marauding horsemen believed to be invading from Sudan, the World Wildlife Fund said on Thursday. "The forces arrived too late to save most of the park's elephants, and were too few to deter the poachers," said Natasha Kofoworola Quist, director
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The fight to save elephants from ivory poachers in Cameroon's Bouba Ndjida national park has reached new deadly levels, with at least two people killed and about 400 elephants slaughtered since January, rights group say. A poacher, a soldier and 10 elephants were killed in one clash alone last week, when Cameroonian troops intervened after poachers on horseback began storming
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Controversial actor, Jim Iyke will live to retell his story after he escaped being mobbed last weekend by female fans in far away Cameroon. However, he sustained injuries after the attack. Jim Iyke was in Cameroon to shoot his new movie, when an army of female fans suddenly besieged him while on location. The actor was said to have sustained
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Yaounde — Sala Aminata, a housewife from the Logone and Shari Division in Cameroon's Far North Region, looks at her six kids with apprehension as she tries to figure out how to feed them with her meagre salary. "I used to buy a bag of maize for 24.5 dollars," she says. But now it costs 34.5 dollars, which is almost
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Bouba Ndjida - About 500 elephants have been killed in a Cameroon national park in less than two months by poachers from Sudan and Chad, a park official told AFP on Thursday. "As of today we estimate that 480 elephants have been slaughtered in our park," said Mathieu Fometa of the Bouba Ndjida National Park in northern Cameroon, near the
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Poachers have slaughtered some 200 elephants in a national park in northern Cameroon, about a third of the population, and the massacre is still going on, according to a wildlife protection group. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said a gang of Sudanese poachers had killed the free roaming elephants in the Bouba Ndjida National Park in northern Cameroon,
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Douala — UK researchers have discovered how the drugs that are currently used to treat sleeping sickness work at the molecular level, potentially opening the way to tackling growing resistance to the drugs. Sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) is caused by Trypanosoma brucei parasites and is transmitted by the tsetse fly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease affected around 30,000
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Yaounde — Ahmadou Lamine has been forced to close his business selling fuel imported from Nigeria, known locally as "zoa-zoa", because of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram. Lamine, from Maroua, the capital of Cameroon's Far North Region, ran out of stock after Nigeria temporarily closed its border with Cameroon's northern region. The move came after the Christmas Day bombings
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Geneva - A global financier of vaccines for children in poor countries said on Thursday it is working with the governments of Cameroon and Niger to recover up to $6.7m in misused or stolen funds. The money in question came from cash-based programmes that are supported by the $7bn Geneva-based GAVI Alliance, a global vaccines group. The GAVI alliance includes
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Cameroon international striker Samuel Eto'o has said he intends to stay at Russian Premiership club Anzhi Makhachkala until the end of his playing career. "I've never thought about leaving Anzhi since I came here. Not a single second," the four-time African player of the year was quoted as saying by the club on Friday. "Moreover, I'm intended to play with
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Yaoundé — According to a law recently enacted by the Cameroonian parliament, individuals found guilty of corruption and embezzlement of public funds will see the charges against them dropped if they return the money. Some Cameroonian citizens are concerned that the new law will further encourage corruption within the ruling elite. The new law, which was passed last December by
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A 15-match ban imposed on Cameroon captain Samuel Eto'o for sparking a players' strike has been reduced to eight months, the national football federation said on Saturday. The original suspension of the four-time African Footballer of the Year triggered widespread anger in a central African country reeling from their failure to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. Officials
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Bafut — Starved of electricity but with plentiful methane-rich manure, rural livestock farmers in this heavily agricultural nation have become unlikely heroes and beneficiaries of Africa's fight to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Take 46-year-old Juliana Mengue, who was widowed five years ago and has to care by herself for 40 cows on her a one-and-half acre farm in Bafut village
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Anzhi Makhachkala forward Samuel Eto’o has set up a mobile network in his homeland Cameroon meant to create cheap access to communication for the population, while becoming the third mobile network operator in the central African nation behind French-owned Orange Telecom and South Africa-based multinational MTN. Set’Mobile was launched on Thursday in Yaounde with more than 50,000 SIM cards already
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Electricity lines that carry no current are strewn across the village of Mparo in eastern Cameroon, but residents hope a long-promised diamond mine will help turn on the lights. The discovery of the Mobilong diamond field not far from the village located some 700 kilometres (440 miles) from the capital Yaounde, could vastly improve what is now a difficult life
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Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) is preparing for hitch-free elections in 2012. Cameroon's elections governing body, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), will in 2012 organise the expected parliamentary and council elections in the country. This will be the second time ELECAM will be organizing elections after the October 9, 2011 presidential election in which 23 candidates contested. The electoral law states that registration on
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Algeria have received $500,000 in compensation after the Samuel Eto'o-led Cameroon players' strike which forced the cancellation of a friendly between the two countries. The payment, confirmed on Friday by the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT), comes in the same week that Eto'o was handed a 15-match international ban for his role as ringleader in the action. Cameroon were due to
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Cameroon banned reigning African Footballer of the Year Samuel Eto'o for 15 matches Friday after a players' strike forced a friendly fixture in Algeria last month to be cancelled. The surprisingly harsh punishment was meted out by the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) disciplinary committee and reported on the website of the governing body. National team striker and captain Eto'o has
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A court in Yaounde has sentenced three Cameroonian men arrested in July to five years in prison for engaging in gay sex, their lawyer said Wednesday. The Ekounou court sentenced the three on Tuesday to five years imprisonment and a fine, the heaviest sentence provided by Cameroonian law, which bans homosexuality, Michel Togue told AFP. Two of the convicted men
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In order to popularise female condoms in Cameroon, local organisations promote them through hair salons, workrooms and other small shops. But instead of selling the condoms, the managers are giving them away to the clients in order to clear their stocks. 'La Chance Beauté' is a hair salon located in the Emana neighbourhood, in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. The
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The number of people on anti-retroviral treatment in the country has now increased to over 100,000. The severity of the AIDS epidemic that affects every continent and especially the poor, its present and foreseeable consequences on the social and political stability of states justify the interest and commitment of the Minister of Public Health, André Mama Fouda. Knowing how central
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