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Samuel Eto’o’s Bentley stolen

Samuel Eto’o’s Bentley stolen

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 [...]

Friday, March 19th, 2010 10:44 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »

Malta: Court confiscates €43,000 belonging to two men from Cameroon

Malta: Court confiscates €43,000 belonging to two men from Cameroon

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 [...]

Friday, March 19th, 2010 12:28 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »

United Arab Emirates: Cameroon couple with $500,000 in fake currency held

United Arab Emirates: Cameroon couple with $500,000 in fake currency held

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, [...]

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 12:53 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »

Illicit Drugs: Smuggled in Coffins

Illicit Drugs: Smuggled in Coffins

The drugs are transported from the West region as corpses to avoid police checkpoints.
It was 6:30 pm at Bikoko junction in Douala, last Monday 16th. The moon had just timidly beamed its tender face behind the thick dark clouds, upon which tons of restless raindrops hanged. Then, a brutal whirlwind, accompanied by fleet of thunder [...]

Thursday, March 18th, 2010 12:35 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, Society | Read More »

Turkey, Cameroon sign visa deal, protocol

Turkey, Cameroon sign visa deal, protocol

Turkish and Cameroonian parties signed an agreement on mutual visa exemption agreement as well as a protocol on technical, scientific and economic cooperation.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Tuesday that Turkey would keep providing humanitarian aids to Africa.
President Gul, who is paying a formal visit to Cameroon, delivered a speech in Turkey-Cameroon Business Forum in [...]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 02:07 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »

Cameroon hit hard by brain drain

Cameroon hit hard by brain drain

Cameroonian emigrants stream into neighbouring Gulf of Guinea countries, Europe and the US, mostly representing the country’s most educated citizens. Far more Cameroonian medics now work abroad than in Cameroon.
A migration profile of Cameroon released today by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) shows that current migration flows continue to be mostly internal from the [...]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 09:24 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »

Soldiers punished for clash with civilians

Soldiers punished for clash with civilians

Nineteen members of an army unit in Cameroon have been punished, including 16 who were dismissed from the ranks, for acts of brutality against civilians, the government said in a statement on Tuesday.
Defence Minister Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o on Monday ordered “disciplinary sanctions” against “certain stray elements in the Rapid Battalion Intervention – Delta (BIR [...]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 09:05 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »

Break the law and your new ‘friend’ may be the FBI

Break the law and your new ‘friend’ may be the FBI

Report shows FBI, other agents dipping quietly into social media.
The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice [...]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 02:48 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Society | Read More »

People wounded at a recruitment interview

People wounded at a recruitment interview

It was a terrible scene at Hotel Sawa on March 13, 2010 when several hundreds of youths turned up for an interview advertised as a massive recruitment at MAERSK according to their release. The scenery left some people wounded and others hospitalised, while the premises of Hotel Sawa have been terribly damaged. The crowd that [...]

Monday, March 15th, 2010 04:34 pm GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »

Big men in love: African presidents are also human

Big men in love: African presidents are also human

In Africa the presidency is so mystified as to attract ranging debates and endless banter whenever the public gets a sneak view of goings on at the big houses on the hill, Nation writer LEE MWITI takes a look at the big men and the four-letter word:
Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika’s Valentine’s Day engagement party was [...]

Monday, March 15th, 2010 12:28 am GMT +1 | Posted in English, Headlines, Society | Read More »