Yaounde (National Times) – Russia’s Ambassador to Cameroon has handed to President Biya and official invitation letter from Russia’s President Vladmir Putin for the upcoming Russia-Africa forum according to Cameroon Tribune.
Yaounde (National Times) – Cameroon’s Minister of Territorial Administration (MINAT) Paul Atanga Nji offered bibles and rosaries to ex-combatant in the North West region of Cameroon during a working visit, according to the country’s top paper Mutation.
Digging into what caused the fracas, a biker claimed security officers on duty engaged into a random seizure of keys of their bikes in front of the Fiango market. The same source narrated that, a soldier within the same area condemned the act stating that, the bikers among whom were internally displaced persons were barely struggling to earn a living.
Cameroon(National Times)-Following the visit of the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, 27 personalities of the Biya regime have been targeted for sanctions by Donald Trump’s Government, says French newspaper, Le Monde.
Yaoundé (National Times)-Security Forces, Sunday, March 24, 2019, arrested some members of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM) party, who were cleaning the some streets of the country’s political capital, Yaoundé.
In 34 years, corruption has been on the rise. Most of those indicted in the current anti-corruption war in the country are former heavyweights of the CPDM party. Yet, this is a configuration which its leader Biya launched on a vision of rigour and moralisation. Today’s Cameroon is one in which, the line between the state and the ruling party the CPDM is somewhat invisible
Cameroon(National Times)-The Government of the United Kingdom and Great Britain as well as some 37 other countries in the world have called on the Government of Cameroon to accept international assistance aimed at ending the conflict in the restive Anglophone Regions, which has been dragging on for close to three years.
Yaoundé(National Times)-Two children of the former Defence Minister, Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o are being questioned by the Yaoundé Special Criminal Court (SCC) in a matter not unconnected to the corruption scandal which has seen their father and mother incarcerated at the Kondengui Maximum Security Prison.
National Times (Yaounde) – Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strengthened its committment to continue to invest in Africa and reiterated the benefits of China-Africa relations to the host African countries after facing strong criticisms over the spiralling debt that African countries are acrusing from Chines loans.
At the first Ministerial council meeting shortly after the January 4th cabinet shakeup, Paul Biya reiterated his promise. With the decree coming 23 late, many have described it as a round peck in a square hold since the conflict has traversed the stage of decrees and bills to the stage of negotiations by all the conflicting parties
that “out of the more than 200m villages burnt down in the North West and South West Regions, and thousands of civilians killed, all allegedly by the so called terrorists, how many of such affected populations and families have been visited by Your Excellency or your representatives as was promptly with the case in Bangourin in the West Region?”
Before the night time news, suspicion had filled the public space after minor adjustments were made on reports filed during the 3PM, 5PM and 7PM News broadcast on state radio. At 3PM, the report filed in did not focus on the Kamto Affair and the Anglophone crisis.
At 5PM the same news report was aired but with a slight modification to insist that, nothing was said about the Anglophone Crisis and Arrest of Kamto. It was the same with a focus of possibly hiding the concerns raised over the two key issues that was aired at 7PM again on state radio.