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Cameroon will not achieve MDGs, study says

Cameroon will not achieve MDGs, study says

APA-Douala (Cameroon) Cameroon is far from achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, according to a study by the Economy, Planning and Town-planning ministry copied to APA on Wednesday. The government has only made significant efforts in three out of the eight UN-set MDGs, the document reports. For instance, the primary education sector has [...]

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 12:13 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Politique | Read More »

Lapiro de Mbanga (interview)

Lapiro de Mbanga (interview)

Cameroonian musician Lapiro de Mbanga comments on his situation in the prison, and on his cause. The video interview was recorded by Freedom to Create in the prison in Cameroon in November 2009. In September 2008, Lapiro was sentenced to three years imprisonment. Sharing a cell with more than 50 persons, Lapiro’s health has deteriorated [...]

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 04:06 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, Society | Read More »

Matip makes Cologne exit

Matip makes Cologne exit

Defender Marvin Matip has departed Bundesliga side Cologne for second-tier German club FC Ingolstadt 04. The 24-year-old has been at Cologne for five years but spent the second half of last season on loan with second division outfit Karlsruhe. The stopper, who was deemed surplus to requirements at Cologne and joins Ingolstadt for an undisclosed [...]

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 01:20 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, Sports | Read More »

India: Red tape keeps Cameroon man from going home

India: Red tape keeps Cameroon man from going home

Bureaucratic hurdles have made him the longest serving African-origin detainee in Delhi. He’s also the only Cameroonian ever to be lodged at northwest Delhi’s Lampur detention centre on a drug peddling charge since July 2008. However, two years after he was arrested from south Delhi’s Mehrauli, 35-year-old Mofo Rene is far from feeling special. He’s [...]

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 01:15 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, Society | Read More »

Espanyol’s Carlos Kameni Fails To Seal Deadline Day Switch

Espanyol’s Carlos Kameni Fails To Seal Deadline Day Switch

Espanyol keeper Carlos Kameni looks to have failed to seal a move to a number of clubs on deadline day of the transfer window. The Cameroon international was linked heavily with a deal to Galatasaray, and also Fulham and Sporting Lisbon. The deal with the Turkish side stalled over a fee which was rejected by [...]

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 01:12 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Sports | Read More »

Cameroon’s leader reshuffles security services

Cameroon’s leader reshuffles security services

APA-Yaounde (Cameroon) Cameroonian President Paul Biya on Tuesday dismissed the heads of police security Emmanuel Edou and intelligence service Bienvenu Obelabout. The head of the police investigation department, Emmanuel Edou, who was appointed in July 2009, was replaced by the Cameroonian serving ambassador to Spain, Martin Mbarga Nguele, who held this post in the 1980s. [...]

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 01:02 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Politique | Read More »

Au tribunal : Un présumé pédophile à la barre

Au tribunal : Un présumé pédophile à la barre

Il y a deux mois, Ernest N. 35 ans a été pris en flagrant délit de sodomie sur un enfant de10 ans par son voisin. Ernest N. ne reconnaît pas les faits qui lui sont reprochés et plaide non coupable. « Je n’ai pas abusé sexuellement de cet enfant monsieur le président », clame-t-il haut [...]

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 12:45 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »

Mbida to contest presidency after 13 year exile

Mbida to contest presidency after 13 year exile

After almost 13 years in voluntary exile, Louis Tobie Mbida, leader of the Cameroonian Party of Democrats (CPD), announced he will return to Yaoundé on 2 September and is planning to run in the presidential elections in 2011. Mbida, son of Cameroon’s first Prime Minister, André-Marie Mbida has been leader-in-exile of the Cameroonian Party of [...]

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 11:52 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Politique | Read More »

Newspaper editor held since March hospitalised after being attacked in his cell

Newspaper editor held since March hospitalised after being attacked in his cell

Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned about the condition of the former editor of the weekly Le Devoir, Robert Mintya, who was taken from Yaoundé’s Kondengui prison to a hospital on 25 August, more than two weeks after being seriously injured in an attack by a fellow inmate in his cell. The press freedom organisation [...]

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 01:26 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »

Orange Cameroon signs framework deal with pharmacists’ union

Orange Cameroon signs framework deal with pharmacists’ union

Orange Cameroon has signed a framework agreement with the country’s pharmacy professionals association, offering phone service discounts to its members, daily newspaper Mutations reports. Pharmacists will benefit from lower-cost calls between each other as well as to others, both on Orange and other networks. They will enjoy savings on internet service as well. Company CEO [...]

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 12:59 pm GMT +1 | Posted in Business, English | Read More »