The Cameroonian government has increased its direct stake in the National Refining Company (Sonara) to 98.09%, up from 81.95%, following a recapitalization that sharply reduced the ownership shares of the refinery’s minority shareholders. TotalEnergies Marketing Afrique’s stake fell from 4% to 0.42%, although the company still holds the same number of shares. The new ownership […]
In the life of every community, history must be revisited, decisions must be understood and the future must be built on a foundation of unity rather than division. For the Manyu people of Cameroon, the question of whether our association should be known as the Manyu Elements Cultural Association (MECA) or the Manyu Elements Cultural […]
Cameroon’s main opposition MRC elected a new party president on Saturday, Tiriane Balbine Noah. She replaces Maurice Kamto and becomes the first woman to lead the party. Cameroon’s main opposition MRC held its extraordinary elective congress on Saturday, despite intense pressure was put on authorities to ban the meeting. Supporters gathered at the party headquarters […]
Pope Leo XIV celebrated mass on Friday at the hospital where he is recovering from a lung cancer operation, as seen in the first images of him released by the Vatican since the procedure. The images showed the 71-year-old Chicago-born pope in front of a makeshift altar in a room on the 10th floor of […]
President Paul Biya has been declared alive and working by a senior presidential aide following renewed social media rumours claiming he had died, with the presidency dismissing the reports on Friday, October 16, 2026. Samuel Mvondo Ayolo, director of the Civil Cabinet at the Cameroonian presidency, rejected the claim in comments to Jeune Afrique, asking, […]
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