AES-Sonel, the Cameroon affiliate of U.S. energy firm AES Corp. (AES), last month began construction of a 216 megawatt gas-fired electricity plant at Mpolonwe near the port town of Kribi.
The project, to cost EUR255 million, is designed to provide energy for mineral mining and will take 23 months to complete.
Cameroon Premier Philemon Yang visited the [...]
Mister François Perrodo, Perenco S.A. Chairman and the Executive General Manager of the National Hydrocarbons Corporation (NHC), Mister Adolphe Moudiki, have signed a Production Sharing Contract for oil exploration in the Elombo block (former Ebodje permit) situated offshore in the Douala/Kribi-Campo basin, with a surface area of 2405 km².
The ceremony was presided over by Mister [...]
The UEFA Champions League held a draw for the semi-final matches.
Olympique Lyonnais will play FC Girondins de Bordeaux and FC Bayern will play Manchester United first on March 30th and then again in the second-leg on April 6th.
Arsenal will lay Barcelona and Internazionale Milano will play CSKA Moskva on March 30th and then against on [...]
ALL eyes will undoubtedly be trained on Cesc Fabregas and Lionel Messi when Arsenal take on Barcelona in the Champions League.
Yet two other players could have a bigger say in the contest between the beautiful game’s two most beautiful exponents – certainly from the Gunners’ point of view.
Alex Song and Abou [...]
Clarets defender Andre Bikey is backing a campaign to tackle racism in football after he once had to carry a gun around as he suffered abuse from Russian fans.
The Cameroon international has experienced the startling effect of racism first hand, especially when he had a stint with Lokomotiv Moscow.
Bikey carried a gun for his own [...]
Thieves are behind the wheel of Samuel Eto’s Bentley GT63 after stealing it while it was parked outside a hotel on Thursday night.
ANSA claims the €150,000 car was in the possession of Marko Arnautovic after the Cameroon striker had agreed to lend it to his team-mate.
It was Arnautovic who raised the alarm after discovering the [...]
You’d think authors would jump at the chance to have their work introduced to a new audience. Not so for Cameroonian novelist Léonora Miano, whose recent work L’interieur de la nuit (or “Inside the Night”) was recently picked up by the University of Nebraska Press. The Guardian’s Richard Lea reports that Miano is less than [...]
Tessa Serge Stephen, 32, who is resident in Paris, was found at the airport to be carrying €32,500 when the law establishes a limit of €10,000 in cash which can be taken out of Malta.
A further €30,500 were found in the possession of Tchebo Nyapsi Bernard, 31 as he was leaving for Rome, where he [...]
Seven Chinese hostages who were freed by an armed gang in Cameroon’s southwest Bakassi region arrived “traumatised” Thursday in Yaounde, the capital, Chinese source said.
The seven fishermen went straight to the Chinese embassy, where ambassador Xue Jinwei received them over lunch and listened to their six-day ordeal, a Chinese diplomat said.
“Even if they weren’t [...]
SHARJAH – Police arrested a Cameroonian who possessed half a million dollars in fake currency notes, a senior official at Sharjah Police said.
Police initially received a tip-off about a large number of men and women who lived together, in addition to being infiltrators.
After confirming the information, police raided the apartment and found men and women, [...]