Africa Cameroon After the plenary session held in the Senate last April, the senators of the third legislature will meet for the second time tomorrow 8 June 2023 for a session in which they will start voting on laws and monitor government action
Africa Cameroon The Telecommunications Regulatory Agency has fined mobile operators Orange, MTN, Camtel and Nextel for poor quality of service and non-compliance with coverage obligations contained in respective specifications
Africa Cameroon There are more than 3 million people in a food crisis situation, according to the Harmonised Framework of Areas at Risk and Identification of Food Insecure Populations; the total population of the country is around 27 million
Africa Cameroon In April 2023, the three dessert banana producers operating in Cameroon exported 13.928 tonnes, according to figures just published by the Cameroonian Banana Association, a decrease of 23,6% in relative value
Africa Cameroon The Expanded Vaccination Programme, the government's mass vaccination plan, achieved an 80% coverage rate in 2022, according to last year's 12-month report
Africa Cameroon Darryl Nganou Tiogueu, a young electromechanical engineer, has created a three-seater electric vehicle, entirely manufactured in Cameroon, called 'Atoum'
Africa Cameroon Jacqueline Nkembe Epse Adiaba, a Cameroonian expert, is the first woman elected president of the Central African Financial Market Supervisory Commission
Africa Cameroon For residents of economic capital Douala it is a routine to get up early and queue outside a brewery to fill water bottles: unreliable public water service makes water drilling profitable
Africa Cameroon Enable Youth Cameroon, an gricultural value chain development program financed by the African Development Bank, has just launched recruitment to train 512 aspiring young Cameroonian entrepreneurs in agribusiness
Africa Cameroon President Paul Biya has signed a decree validating a 5,2% salary increase for civil and military personnel
Africa Cameroon The government has stated that the killing of journalist Salomon Mbani Zogo last month is now being used as a pretext to put state of Cameroon itself on trial, pointing to French newspaper Le Monde and Reporters without Borders as primarily responsible
Africa Cameroon A group of women demonstrated in Ekona, a locality in the English-speaking region of the South West, to denounce repeated and unjustified arrests of their sons by defence and security forces
Africa Cameroon Shakiro, a Cameroonian transgender woman persecuted by the Cameroonian justice system and victim of aggression, has been granted protection in Belgium, where she has arrived