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Morocco’s national football team of local-based players has won the African Nations Championship (CHAN) for the second time in a row after their previous title won at home in 2018. In the final disputed Sunday in Yaounde, Cameroon, the national team beat Mali 2-0. Morocco’s two goals, both scored from corner kicks, were netted by […]
French top tier soccer power house Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Wednesday honored the assistant manager of the Turkish club Medipol Basaksehir after he was victim of alleged racism during Tuesday suspended European Champions League, UCL, clash between the two sides in Paris. PSG Chairman, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, in a video post by the Turkish club, handed Pierre […]
Senegal is the first team to qualify for the final phase of the next African Cup of Nations to be held in early 2022 in Cameroon. With 12 points, the Senegalese are indeed certain to finish in one of the first two places in Group I, in the qualifiers of this “CAN 2021”. They got […]
The Cameroonian presidency admitted on Tuesday that 13 civilians had been killed by three soldiers and auxiliaries in a village in the north-western English-speaking separatist area in mid-February. The United Nations had revealed that dring the night of 13 to 14 February, 13 civilians, including 10 children (nine under the age of five) and two […]
In Cameroon, the opposition has lost 23 seats in the National Assembly following the results of the 9 February legislative elections. The ruling party of long-serving leader Paul Biya has secured a landslide victory, according to results announced by the constitutional council on Friday. The ruling People’s Democratic Movement party (RDPC) took 139 out of […]
The Constitutional Council of Cameroon, on Tuesday, ordered a re-run of the local and parliamentary elections in 11 constituencies in the country’s restive English-speaking regions. The ruling, announced on state broadcaster CRTV on Tuesday evening, follows complaints brought by numerous political parties about the conduct of the polls earlier this month. They cited, […]
The UN human rights office is calling for an independent, impartial and thorough investigation into the massacre of 23 people, mostly women and children, during a military operation in a village in Cameroon’s Northwest Anglophone region on February 14. More information has emerged since this shocking attack occurred. UN human rights monitors on the ground […]
At least twenty two people, including 14 children and women were killed Friday in the village of Ntumbo, populated by the English-speaking minority in northwest Cameroon. The majority of children are under 5. The opposition and local NGOs have accused the government and the military, who have been fighting Anglophone secessionist armed groups for three […]
The UN refugee agency says about 8,000 people have fled from Cameroon into Nigeria in the past two weeks because of an upsurge in violence. According to the UN agency, the refugees had trekked through savannah and forests to reach Nigeria. Some arrived with gunshot wounds. Fighting between Anglophone separatists and security forces flared […]
At least a hundred individuals were abducted by armed separatists in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon before the legislative and municipal elections of Feb.9, revealed Human Rights Watch (HRW), which accused the soldiers of “new abuses”. “Armed separatists (…) kidnapped over 100 people, burned property, and threatened voters in the run-up to the elections,” the […]