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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]