Mali declared a national disaster on Friday due to the devastating floods caused by torrential rains, following an extraordinary Cabinet meeting chaired by Col. Assimi Goita, the president of the transition government.
Since the beginning of the (...)
The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) signed on Friday an agreement with the Cameroonian government to finance the construction of the Mbalmayo Regional Hospital with the provision of a soft development loan amounting to $12 million.
The agreement (...)
Today, the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) signed an agreement with the Cameroonian Government to finance the construction of the Mbalmayo Regional Hospital Project, with the provision of a soft development loan amounting to USD 12 million. The (...)
Mohamed Salah buried the decisive penalty as Egypt beat Ivory Coast 5-4 in a shootout to reach the quarterfinals of the African Cup of Nations on Wednesday.
Salah sent his spot kick into the bottom right corner and then ran off and jumped on the (...)
In a CNN special airing this weekend, Samuel Eto'o, who is often regarded as one of the greatest African footballers of all time, invites the network on a rare trip to his hometown of Douala, Cameroon.
CNN's African Voices Changemakers accompanies (...)
DIJBOUTI CITY — The Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) recently signed an agreement for a grant package worth over $9 million to fund the design and construction of a water distribution network, a judicial courthouse and infrastructure projects in (...)
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has expressed its profound sympathy to the government and people of the Republic of Cameroon following the train accident that occurred at the Eseka railway station along the Yaounde-Douala railroad on (...)
Rescue workers in Cameroon worked overnight to bring to hospital wounded victims of a passenger train crash that killed 70 people as work began to clear wreckage from the vital rail line, the railway company said on Saturday.
The Central African (...)
Fifty-five people are dead and 600 injured after a passenger train derailment in Cameroon, Radio France Internationale reported Saturday, According to dpa.
The government had earlier put the death toll at 53 after Friday's accident in Eseka, about (...)
The death toll from an overloaded train that derailed in Cameroon has risen, rescue workers and hospital staff said Saturday, estimating that at least 73 people had been killed.
Bodies were strewn along the tracks as workers continued looking for (...)
Fifty-three people were killed and nearly 300 injured on Friday when a packed passenger train travelling between Cameroon's two largest cities derailed and overturned, the transportation minister said, Reuters reported.
Speaking on state radio, (...)
ETIHAD Cargo has taken delivery of a new Boeing 777 freighter which will enable the freight arm of Etihad Airways to continue its expansion plans into 2016. The aircraft becomes the 11th freighter in the fleet and will enter commercial service on (...)
At least six people were killed and 30 injured in northern Cameroon on Wednesday by two extremist suicide bombers at a Muslim funeral gathering, Reuters cited two officials in the region as saying.
The attackers were from the terrorist Boko Haram (...)
A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded at least one in an attack on a mosque in northern Cameroon on Wednesday, in the latest attack linked to the terrorist militant group Boko Haram, Reuters quoted officials in the Far North region (...)
Eight villagers in Cameroon's Far North region were killed and nine injured in a raid by Nigerian group Boko Haram that was followed by a gun battle between militants and security forces, a government official said on Thursday, according to (...)
The U.N. says one peacekeeper died and six were injured after their vehicle struck a land mine in northern Mali, AP reported.
The incident occurred Monday 30 kilometers west of Timbuktu, which like the rest of northern Mali fell to rebels including (...)
A four-seater plane carrying only the American pilot has disappeared, Nigerian media Tuesday quoted Cameroonian aviation sources as saying.
The plane, owned by the US company Global Aviation, took off from Kano in northern Nigeria on Monday evening (...)
Cameroon has begun airlifting people trying
to flee the war-torn Central African Republic, an official said
Saturday in the Cameroonian port city of Douala, according to dpa.
Joseph Beti Assomo, the governor of Cameroon's Littoral Region of
which (...)
DOUALA, Cameroon — Cameroon's President Paul Biya is marking 30 years in power, and the ruling party has planned boisterous celebrations while banning the opposition from holding a protest. The 79-year-old Biya has removed term limits from the (...)
A Cameroonian passenger boat was
attacked by pirates this week in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean, dpa quoted
local media as reporting today.
The attack, which occurred on Tuesday in Cameroonian waters, left
one woman dead and four other (...)
Guards at a maximum security
prison in Cameroon's port city of Douala shot dead 16 inmates
during an attempted break-out, state radio said on Monday.
It said the prisoners made the escape bid from the New Bell
prison late on Sunday, cutting off (...)
The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday that one of its officials was among those killed in the crash of a Kenya Airways jetliner last weekend.
Akouvi Enyonam Kumodzi-Agbeviade, a Togolese national, had been on mission in the Central African Republic (...)
PONGO, Cameroon, May 7, SPA -- Crash investigator
concentrated Monday on the possibility that a Kenya Airways
jetliner lost power in both engines during a storm and
tried to glide back before plunging nose first into a
mangrove swamp 20 (...)
The wreckage of a Kenya Airways
jetliner missing for nearly two days was found Sunday in a
dense mangrove forest on the outskirts of Cameroon's
commercial capital, aviation officials said. There was no
information on survivors.
Searchers (...)
Result of African Confederation Cup second round, first leg matches on Friday:
In Kinshasa: CS Cimenterie Lukala (DR Congo) 2 Union Douala (Cameroon) 1
In Nouakchott: Concorde (Mauritania) 0 Bamboutos (Cameroon) 0 In Tripoli: Al Ittihad (Libya) 3 (...)
