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27, May 2024
Reporters Without Borders files ICC case over journalists’ deaths in Gaza 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Monday it had filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court over Palestinian journalists killed or injured in Gaza. RSF said it was asking the ICC’s prosecutor to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the Israeli army against at least nine Palestinian reporters since December 15. The […]
27, May 2024
More than 2,000 people buried in Papua New Guinea landslide 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
More than 2,000 people were buried by a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, the national disaster centre said on Monday, as the government officially asked for international help to reach communities trapped in remote villages where rescue efforts have been hampered by treacherous conditions. The numbers of those buried around Yambali village in Enga […]
27, May 2024
Bamenda: bar explosion kills 2, death toll could rise 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
At least two persons were killed late Saturday when a makeshift bomb exploded in a crowded bar in Bamenda, according to local and security sources. An army official said that the improvised explosive device detonated in a neighborhood just meters away from a police station. “People were gathered to watch an important final match when […]
24, May 2024
CPDM Crime Syndicate: Aluminum Export Revenues Rise 11% in 2023 0
by soter • Africa, Business, Headline News
The revenues from Cameroon’s aluminum exports, managed by the Cameroon Aluminum Company (Alucam), reached CFA54.2 billion in 2023, marking an 11% increase from CFA48.9 billion in 2022, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INS). Despite the revenue increase, the volume of aluminum exports remained nearly stagnant. Cameroon exported 43,916 tons of raw aluminum in […]
24, May 2024
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Nigerian army says it burst syndicate supplying fuel to Amba fighters 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News, Nigeria
Troops of Nigerian Army have intercepted and arrested eight members of a syndicate smuggling fuel from Nigeria to the Ambazonian rebels in the Republic of Cameroon to facilitate terrorists’ activities. A statement by the Nigerian Army on its official X handle (formerly Twitter) said the suspects were arrested during a sting operation on Friday May […]
24, May 2024
Andre Onana says it took him six months to feel good at Manchester United 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Sports
Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana says it took him six months “to feel good” at Old Trafford. United paid £47.2m to sign Onana from Inter Milan in July as replacement for four-time club player of the year David de Gea. However, despite lofty expectations on his arrival, the Cameroon international was chipped from 50 yards […]
24, May 2024
Football: Ranieri bids tearful farewell to Cagliari with last-gasp Fiorentina defeat 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, Sports
Claudio Ranieri waved goodbye to Cagliari and brought the curtain down on a near four-decade club coaching career with Thursday’s 3-2 defeat to Fiorentina cruelly inflicted in the 13th minute of added time. Arthur stroked home Fiorentina’s winning goal from the penalty spot after Luca Beltran earned the away side, who trailed 2-1 in the […]
24, May 2024
International mining convention opens in Yaoundé 0
by soter • Africa, Breaking News, Business, Headline News
The Cameroon International Mining and Exhibition Convention opened on Thursday in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé. The three-day event, now in its fourth edition, aims to promote sustainable investment in the mining sector in Central Africa with Cameroon as the hub, according to the country’s Ministry of Mines, Industry and Technological Development, the organizer of […]
23, May 2024
British PM Rishi Sunak calls snap general election for July 4 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, Politics
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a national election on Wednesday, naming July 4 as the date for a vote his governing Conservatives are widely expected to lose to the opposition Labour Party after 14 years in power. Ending months of speculation as to when he would call a new poll, Sunak, 44, stood outside […]
27, May 2024
USA: Cardinal Sean O’Malley ordains first Cameroonian priest 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Religion
In the Archdiocese of Boston, of the Pope St. John Paul XXIII seminary, Archbishop, Sean Cardinal O’Malley ordained Rev John Tanyi Nquah Lebui, the first Cameroonian Priest in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. The historical monument with an imposing presence of 364 feet long, ninety feet high, with a seating capacity of 1,700, the […]