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29, August 2024
Being Black in Germany has never been easy 0
It was a balmy summer night in 2020, shortly after the lifting of Germany’s first COVID-19 lockdown, and Omar Diallo and two friends from his home country of Guinea wanted to celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Muslim festival of sacrifice. “We were enjoying life, playing music, walking through the city at night — we just wanted […]
29, August 2024
Archbishop Nkea says biblical faith requires opposition to homosexual agenda 0
Archbishop Andrew Nkea has strongly rejected the notion that opposition to the LGBT agenda is based simply on African cultural norms. “Our stand had nothing to do with culture,” said Archbishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda, Cameroon. “It was about fidelity to the truth; fidelity to what Christ taught. It was about fidelity to what […]
29, August 2024
New School Year: Minister warns against PTA fee abuses 0
The Basic Education Ministry recently warned public primary school administrators about “shortcomings”, including the mandatory imposition of parent-teacher association (PTA) fees, just over a week before the new school year. In an August 20 letter, Basic Education Minister Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa highlighted the issue but did not take a definitive stance on the contentious […]
29, August 2024
CPDM Crime Syndicate: Biya regime paid CFA37bn in salaries to underperforming directors 0
Between 2020 and 2024, directors, deputy directors, and board chairpersons of Cameroon’s public companies and institutions received a total of CFA48.4 billion in salaries. This amount was paid according to the salary scale set by a June 19, 2019 decree, which outlines the categories, remuneration, allowances, and benefits for executives of public companies and institutions […]
28, August 2024
Of MOWAH and Comfort Beyang’s brother Assibong: the list of failures is legion 0
Dear Assibong, I have gone through your conglomeration of bunkum and from every indication, you are one of the few students my late father taught and whose sound English language skills did not have an impact on. I would suggest you go back to the English language lessons my father, a man noted for his […]
28, August 2024
Etoudi: Biya sides with British American Tobacco 0
Under President Biya’s high orders, Agriculture Minister Henri Eyebe Ayissi has dropped the decision to expropriate British American Tobacco Cameroon from prime land in Yaoundé, despite having agreed to it only a few months earlier. BAT Cameroun reportedly condemned the expropriation of its land in the Bastos district of Yaoundé. Cameroon Intelligence Report gathered that […]
28, August 2024
Archbishop Nkea on How Synod on Synodality Evolved from Pastoral to “more academic, intellectual topic” 0
The Synod on Synodality, which started off as a pastoral issue, bringing on board every baptized member of the Church, has now become a “theoretical” topic for intellectuals, the Archbishop of Cameroon’s Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda has observed. In his presentation at the August 23 session of the ongoing weekly synodal palavers, Archbishop Andrew Nkea […]
28, August 2024
Buea: Deadly attack on police officers an “act that violates human life”: Bishop Bibi 0
The Catholic Bishop of Buea Diocese in Cameroon has “strongly” condemned the killing of police officers in the country’s Southwest region following an attack on their security post located in his Episcopal See. In a statement shared with ACI Africa on Monday, August 26, Bishop Michael Miabesue Bibi weighs in on the August 24 attack […]
28, August 2024
Yaoundé: Missing activist found in jail with signs of torture 0
A Cameroonian social media activist and government critic who disappeared last month has been located in a security cell of the military court in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital, with signs of torture, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. His lawyers believe the activist, known as Steve Akam, was extrajudicially returned to Cameroon from Gabon, where he had […]
29, August 2024
Norway princess and US shaman’s wedding begins after years of ‘turmoil’ 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, News
Festivities have begun for the wedding of Norwegian Princess Märtha Louise and her American partner, self-styled shaman Durek Verrett. Hundreds of guests are arriving in the town of Alesund, in western Norway, for a “meet and greet” in a historic hotel. On Friday, they will travel by sea to the scenic town of Geirager, on […]