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9, October 2024
Poverty Culture: Several Francophone political leaders urging Biya to run in 2025 0
Several political leaders have called on the president to seek a new mandate in the 2025 election, despite persistent concerns about his health. As with every presidential election in Cameroon, the calls for Paul Biya to run again—now 91 and facing many questions about his health—are multiplying. The leaders of the Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement […]
9, October 2024
Disgraced FECAFOOT boss and CPDM MP Vincent Onana dies 0
Vincent Onana, former president of the Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot), passed away on October 8, 2024, at his home in Yaoundé, according to a report by the national broadcaster CRTV. Born in the Lekié department in the Central Region, Onana was elected president of Fecafoot in 1996 during an extraordinary general assembly, after serving as […]
9, October 2024
“Biya has never been hospitalised in Paris,” says Cameroon’s ambassador to France 0
As rumours continue to circulate about the health of the Cameroonian president, Cameroon’s Paris-based diplomat André Magnus Ekoumou says Biya is in Geneva. For nearly a month, the health of Paul Biya, 91, has been the subject of widespread speculation, as the Cameroonian president has successively cancelled appearances at the United Nations General Assembly, the […]
8, October 2024
Biya is alive, can we see him? 0
The government in Yaoundé has said that rumours of all kinds circulating through conventional media and social networks about President Biya’s condition are pure fantasy. Biya has not been seen in public since attending a China-Africa forum in Beijing in early September. His failure to appear as scheduled at a summit in France last weekend […]
8, October 2024
CPDM government ministers offer reassurances on Biya’s health 0
Ministers Fame Ndongo and Gregoire Owona have reassured Cameroonians about the health of President Paul Biya, 91, and expressed anger at those who announced the demise of the ailing dictator, Cameroon Radio and Television reported on Tuesday after Prime Minister Dion Ngute reportedly cancelled the weekly cabinet meeting. Cameroon Concord News reported that President Paul […]
8, October 2024
Biya regime issues new bonds to cover CFA12bn repayment 0
On October 2, Cameroon successfully issued CFA10 billion in treasury bonds on the Beac public securities market. The results of this loan have not yet been disclosed. This issuance coincided with a scheduled repayment of CFA12 billion from the Cameroonian treasury, which was due on the same day. This repayment relates to a loan taken […]
8, October 2024
Yaoundé says CFA1.7 trillion in suspicious financial flows in Cameroon in 2023 0
Last year, CFA1,665.4 billion was recorded as suspicious financial flows in Cameroon. This figure represents an increase of 180% compared to the previous year, according to a report by the Anti-Graft Commission (Conac), which cited statistics from the National Financial Investigation Agency (ANIF). The result comes from analyzing 965 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) submitted to […]
7, October 2024
Biya family now living in a house guarded by French secret service in Paris 0
President Biya’s family is now living in a well guarded house in France, it has been claimed. Aides to the dictator have moved his family and a select band of relatives to France late yesterday. The move is said to have come about after the 91-year-old leader disappeared from public view. Intelligence sources told Cameroon […]
7, October 2024
CPDM Crime Syndicate: Corruption cases cost the state 175 million euros in 2023 0
In 2023, corruption cases in Cameroon’s public administration services cost the state over 114 billion CFA francs (more than 175 million euros). This is revealed in the economic report published by the National Anti-Corruption Authority (Conac), specifying that the phenomenon involves numerous sectors: taxation, customs, transport, police and gendarmerie, state property and land affairs, telecommunications, […]
9, October 2024
Paul Biya: Why Cameroonians want him to die! 0
by soter • Editorial, Headline News
For some time now, news about Paul Biya’s death has been trending and most discussions among the country’s Diaspora focus on Paul Biya, a man who has ruled his country for almost 42 years. To gain a better understanding of how Cameroonians think about their president, the Cameroon Concord News Group North American editor, Alain […]