Reporters sans frontières | As Amadou Vamoulké, the former director-general of Cameroon’s national radio and TV broadcaster CRTV, completes his seventh year in arbitrary detention today (29 July), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) voices concern about his failing health and calls on the Cameroonian authorities to allow him access to appropriate medical care, …
Read More »Cameroon’s late opposition leader Fru Ndi laid to rest | + video
Reuters | Fru Ndi, who dominated the opposition in the Central African country for a generation and was arrested and kidnapped for his politics, had suffered from a long illness before dying last month, aged 81. An English-speaking businessman from Cameroon’s northwest region, Fru Ndi formed the Social Democratic Front, …
Read More »Saudi and Cameroonian defense ministers hold bilateral talks
RIYADH | Arab News | Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman met with his Cameroonian counterpart Joseph Beti Assomo at his office in the capital, Riyadh, state-run news agency SPA reported on Thursday. During the meeting, they reviewed aspects of bilateral relations between the two countries, and …
Read More »INVESTIGATION: How internationally connected Cameroon elites plundered $656 million
Premium Times | How tax cases involving hundreds of millions in payments from state coffers to questionable entities were snuffed out. A list of 67 suspicious transactions scheduled for investigation by Cameroon’s tax agency shows a total equivalent of $656 million in undeclared payments from state coffers to questionable business …
Read More »Manifestation contre la supposée présence de Paul Biya à Genève
Tribune de Genève | La diaspora camerounaise appelle à un rassemblement samedi contre la possible présence de l’autocrate à l’Hôtel Intercontinental. C’est une tradition qui remonte à des décennies. À la tête du Cameroun depuis plus de quarante ans, l’indéboulonnable Paul Biya a ses habitudes à Genève, parmi lesquelles des …
Read More »Cameroon opposes French LGBT+ rights ambassador’s visit
Reuters | Ambassador Jean-Marc Berthon is scheduled to visit the central African nation from June 27 to July 1 for the event, which would be hosted by the French institute in the capital Yaounde. The government sent a diplomatic notice to the French ambassador in Cameroon to signal its opposition …
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