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18, November 2016
Mozambique: Scores of people killed in an explosion 0
Scores of people have been killed and more than a hundred others injured in an explosion that happened as they tried to siphon oil from an overturned truck in western Mozambique. The incident occurred on Thursday in the village of Caphiridzange in Tete Province, killing 73 people and injuring over 110, some of them critically, […]
18, November 2016
The “Ahidjoness” in Prime Minister Philemon Yang is gone 1
Prime Minister Philemon Yang and President Paul Biya are both militants of the ruling CPDM party. The similarities end there. Yang was appointed into the late President Ahmadou Ahidjo government after spending only six months in Buea as a Magistrate. The late Ahidjo saw in the young Yang a dynamic, hard working and patriotic lad […]
18, November 2016
Britain to construct 5,300 social housing units in French Cameroon 0
President Paul Biya has received a British business delegation led by the UK High Commissioner to Cameroon, Brian Olley. The audience that held today Thursday in the Unity Palace was reportedly intensive and productive. At the end of the meeting, the British top diplomat revealed that more than 5,300 social housing units will soon be […]
17, November 2016
William Aurélien Eteki Mboumoua will be buried at the Bois de Singes cemetery 0
The remains of the former Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and President of the Cameroon Red Cross (CRC) will leave the Yaoundé General Hospital mortuary on the 24th of November 2016 for its final resting place. According to a program published by the Cameroon Red Cross, the late William Aurélien Eteki […]
17, November 2016
Women’s AFCON 2016: Cameroon deploys troops to Limbe and Yaounde 0
Cameroon has announced a massive deployment of troops to help strengthen police presence during the Africa Cup of Nations Women’s Football which runs from the 19th of November to the 3rd of December 2016. Yaoundé has already stationed nearly 3,000 police officers in the cities of Yaoundé and Limbe, where the matches of the 10th […]
17, November 2016
Several Turkish soldiers seeking asylum in Germany 0
Several Turkish soldiers at NATO’s central command in Ramstein has sought asylum in Germany in the wake of Turkey’s widespread crackdown against military personnel, journalists and political activists. According to a German official, quoted by the dpa news agency, family members of the soldiers stationed at the airbase insouthwestern Germany have also applied for asylum. Paul Junker, a regional […]
17, November 2016
Draws for the 2016 Inter-Pool competition to be stage today in Yaounde 0
The Cameroon Football Federation, FECAFOOT has announced that the draw for the 2016 Inter-Pool tournament will take place at its headquarters in the Tsinga district in Yaoundé today Thursday the 17th of November 2016 at 3 pm. Cameroon Concord News learnt that the competition has been scheduled for December 2016 after the final phase of […]
17, November 2016
Yaounde: Striking SOCATUR workers molested and detained in Kondengui 0
The employees of the Cameroon Society of Urban Transport (SOCATUR) paralyzed traffic for more than three hours by blocking the road to the Nlongkak district in Yaoundé on Wednesday the 16th of November. The nearly 125 people claimed they have not been paid for over 12 months. Cameroon Concord News gathered they are actually being […]
16, November 2016
Boko Haram has dramatically scaled back attacks in Cameroon 0
Boko Haram has dramatically scaled back attacks in Cameroon in recent months, analysts said on Wednesday, suggesting a regional security force is gaining ground against the militants. The Islamist movement – which controlled an area the size of Belgium in northeast Nigeria last year and raided Cameroon and other neighbours to expand its “caliphate” – […]
18, November 2016
US: Majority of Democrats in favour of putting an end to the Electoral College system 0
by soter • Breaking News, Headline News, Politics, World
A new poll shows a majority of US Democrats are in favor of putting an end to the Electoral College system, after Hillary Clinton lost the November 8 presidential election to Donald Trump despite winning the popular vote by more than a million votes. According to the Huffington Post/YouGov poll, released on Thursday, 66 percent […]