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13, June 2024
Kenyan policeman shoots magistrate in open court 0
A senior Kenyan police officer has been shot dead after he opened fire at a magistrate in court in the capital, Nairobi. The chief inspector opened fire on Makadara Principal Magistrate Monica Kivuti shortly after she made a ruling in a case reportedly involving his wife. The officer is said to have been angered by […]
12, June 2024
Biya regime cancels another local road contract less than a year after award 0
Cameroon’s Minister of Public Works, Emmanuel Nganou Djoumessi, has terminated the contract awarded to the Cameroonian consortium Precocam/ETS Sentinelle for the paving of the 24-km Pont de la Mape-Carrefour Mwoumban road. The decision, signed on June 3 and made public on June 10, 2024, cited the consortium’s failure to make adequate progress in the construction, […]
12, June 2024
Indomitable Lions: When will Minister Mouelle Kombi end his tragi-comedy? 0
One would have thought that following FIFA’s letter of May 6, 2024, urging Cameroon’s ministry of sports and FECAFOOT to comply with agreements they had signed, especially as the global soccer governing body had clearly stated in its letter that FECAFOOT was the body which had to appoint technical team members for the country’s national […]
12, June 2024
Southern Cameroons: Fon of Akum dies aged 89 0
Fon George Ngwashi Ndikum II, the Fon of the Akum Kingdom in the North West region of Cameroon has died. The Fon 89 was the leader of North West’s Akum ethnic group and an influential traditional ruler. The Fon ruled the Akum Kingdom popularly known as “Small London,” for 66 years. His Majesty Fon George […]
11, June 2024
Football: Lewandowski to miss Poland’s Euro 2024 opener with injury 0
Poland captain Robert Lewandowski will miss his country’s Euro 2024 opener this weekend with a thigh injury, the Polish football federation’s doctor said on Tuesday. Lewandowski, 35, will be absent to face the Netherlands on June 16 after suffering the injury in Monday’s 2-1 win in a friendly against Turkey. Poland then play Austria on […]
11, June 2024
Malawi’s vice president, former first lady among 10 people killed in plane crash 0
Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation’s president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a foggy forest. The military plane carrying Chilima, 51, and nine others disappeared on Monday, after it failed to land in the northern city of Mzuzu due to bad […]
10, June 2024
Marian Apparition Reported at a Parishioner’s Home in Cameroon Requires Thorough Discernment: Archbishop Nkea 0
Thorough discernment is needed in the alleged apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the residence of a faithful in the Catholic Archdiocese of Bamenda, the Archbishop of the Metropolitan See has said. On June 6, thousands of Christians and non-Christians flooded the residence of Madam Dorothy Enow Manyor, a member of the All Angels […]
10, June 2024
Death of Christophe Deloire, secretary-general of Reporters Without Borders 0
On behalf of the team at Reporters Without Borders’ international secretariat, its offices and sections, and their boards of directors, I am deeply saddened to announce the death, at the age of 53, of Christophe Deloire, secretary-general of Reporters Without Borders International and director-general of Reporters Without Borders, following a battle with cancer. Since taking […]
10, June 2024
Journalists covering Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) assaulted, threatened 0
Cameroon Concord News Group has written to Reporters Without Borders over the treatment of its staff correspondents by members of the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) covering the crisis in Southern Cameroons. In a strongly worded statement, the Editor-In-Chief of the Concord Group stated that Besong Eunice Nchong and Alain Agbor Ebot including Cameroon Concord’s Bamenda […]
13, June 2024
Football: Dortmund boss Terzic departs after asking to leave 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, Sports
Borussia Dortmund have parted company with manager Edin Terzic after he asked the club “to terminate his contract with immediate effect”. Dortmund reached the Champions League final in 2023-24 under Terzic but they were beaten by Real Madrid at Wembley. The German club said they agreed to Terzic’s request following “a joint discussion”. “After the […]