Cameroon News

The UN Refugee Agency has prepositioned enough aid in the area to cover the needs of 3,000 families and additional supplies are underway to cover the needs of another 4,000 from a regional stockpile in Douala, Cameroon, spokesperson Dan McNorton told journalists in Geneva.

The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Jean Pierre Biyiti Bi Essam made the assertion during an interview in Yaound.

When the prosecution can't even be bothered to present eyewitnesses, it's clear that the case is lacking in substance.

The Cameroonian authorities should drop the charges against two transgender youth rather than appealing their case to the Supreme Court, four human rights organizations said today.

The ambiance yesterday at the National Assembly was festive. Dance groups from the ten regions of Cameroon, associations, family members and curious onlookers stormed the entrance of the National assembly to catch a glimpse of the senators.

Ms. Antoinette Monsio Sayeh, Director of the International Monetary Fund African Department, visited Cameroon from May 10-12, 2013, to meet with the Cameroonian authorities and other stakeholders and to present the Regional Economic Outlook, Building Momentum in a Multi-Speed World .

Sodicam is the most popular international retailer within the expatriate community and the growing middle-class in Cameroon, and was aiming to open two new hypermarkets and two new supermarkets in Douala and Yaounde in 2012.

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the closure of an independent radio station on April 22 in retaliation for its broadcast of an interview that authorities said incited secessionism.

The President of the Republic has received a delegation of the African Regional Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie .

The atmosphere in and around the Yaounde Monte Febe Hotel is not very ordinary. There is intense activity since most of the senators began arriving ahead of their first ever ordinary session as of right to take place this Tuesday 14th May 2013.

The Director of the African Department in the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Antoinette Sayeh has recommended a better management of natural resources to boost growth and the transformation of the agricultural sector of Sub-Saharan African countries.

Facebook-page protesters said Sunday marks the 16th year French businessman Michel Antangana has been falsely imprisoned in Cameroon for political reasons.

The country has one of the highest per capita GDP in sub-Saharan Africa and IMF estimates Real GDP to grow at 4.1% to 4.5% between 2012 and 2013.

The former General Manager of SONARA, Charles Metouck who was in Prison in Buea has been move to Yaounde and detained at the Kondengui Central Prison.

I wrote, a few weeks ago, about the joy of discovering the television of a foreign place .

The Minister, Director of the Civil Cabinet of the Republic, Chairman of the National Committee for the Organisation of the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebrations of Independence and Reunification of Cameroon, Martin Belinga Eboutou,has instructed all enterprises engaged in the various projects to finish them by the end of May 2013.

YAOUNDE: A group of 17 gunmen entered an animal park in the Central African Republic, threatening "one of the biggest massacres of elephants" in the region, conservationist body WWF said Tuesday.

Serabi Gold has entered into an agreement to acquire Kenai Resources Ltd . In this news: - Deal subject to shareholder approval - Serabi will issue 0.85 new Serabi share for each Kenai share, anticipated to be 90,020,724 new Serabi Shares in total and 20.8% of enlarged share capital - Deal values Kenai at 6.19M, a 87% premium to the closing price ... (more)

Afferro Mining, the AIM-listed exploration and development company focused on iron ore in Cameroon, has unveiled its maiden resource estimate for the Ntem iron ore project.

The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has expressed deep concern over the rise of poaching, armed violence and destruction in the Central African Republic's Dzanga-Sanga National Park, which is on the agency's World Heritage List.