BBC | A court in France has found French-Cameroonian author Charles Onana guilty of downplaying the Rwandan genocide. The 60-year-old writer was fined €8,400 ($8,900; £7,000) and Damien Serieyx, his publishing director from Éditions du Toucan, was ordered to pay €5,000. They are also required to pay €11,000 in compensation …
Read More »Last Lands: Cameroon & Gabon – Documentary | +video
ABC’s Bob Woodruff goes on a journey to uncover the networks behind the poaching crisis hitting Africa’s last forest elephants and the efforts to save these majestic animals across Cameroon and Gabon.
Read More »Cameroon’s new National Assembly complex stands as testament to win-win Sino-Cameroonian friendship
YAOUNDE, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) — In Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, a newly constructed parliament building gleams dazzlingly in the sunshine. On Saturday, China officially handed over the keys to the building to Cameroon’s National Assembly Speaker Cavaye Yeguie Djibril at a ceremony attended by government officials, and diplomats, among …
Read More »Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Beaten in Cameroon
Human Rights Watch | On November 27, gendarmes in Cameroon arrested and severely beat prominent human rights lawyer Richard Tamfu in the country’s largest city, Douala. The vicious assault fits a pattern of official attacks on lawyers, presumably designed to deter them from doing their job. On the day in question, three …
Read More »Christopher Wooh: On Sampaoli, Eto’o, and Cameroon’s CAN Hopes
Promising Rennes central defender Christopher Wooh is one of Cameroonian football’s greatest hopes. At 23, he dreams of following in the footsteps of Rigobert Song, a central defender like himself. In an interview with RFI, initiated by the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the Indomitable Lion spoke candidly about his current …
Read More »20 killed after boat capsize in Cameroon
Xinhua | At least 20 people were killed on Thursday after a boat capsized in Cameroon’s Far North region, according to witnesses and security sources. The boat capsized as it was transporting passengers from Darak island in the Logone-et-Chari division of region, witnesses told Xinhua Thursday evening. Local media reported …
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