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A tragedy of unprecedented scale struck this morning at the Lycée Bilingue d’Etoug-Ebe, located in the heart of the political capital. At least ten students died during a stampede Monday morning at the Lycée Bilingue d’Etoug-Ebe, located in the political capital Yaoundé. According to reports, the stampede was when students …

Cameroon’s Health Minister, Dr Manaouda Malachie, has urged the population to trust the government’s health policy, amid growing scepticism over the malaria vaccines which arrived in the country nine days ago. In a statement on Wednesday, he detailed the benefits of the RTS,S vaccine in the fight against malaria, praising …

Luka Isaac Batakwa reminisced about the scary night when he lost his four relatives when gunmen belonging to the terror group Boko Haram raided his village in Nigeria. He had seen and had enough and made up his mind to flee to neighbouring Cameroon. There, he joined thousands of other …

African football ruling body, Confederation of African Football (CAF) has said it has received written statements from football stakeholders in Cameroon to investigate FECAFOOT president Samuel Eto’o for alleged improper conduct. In a statement released on Wednesday, August 9, CAF said it is looking into these requests based on and …

Cameroon has formally rejected a visit by France’s LGBTQ rights ambassador, with Yaounde stressing that homosexuality was criminalized under existing laws. Ambassador Jean-Marc Berthon was due to visit the Central African country from 27 June until 1 July to discuss gender rights, the BBC reports. But foreign minister Lejeune Mbella …

  Photos have been released from the 90th birthday of Cameroonian President Paul Biya who is currently the longest serving political leader in the world. Biya’s birthday falls on February 13. The president’s official social media handles shared photos of Biya in the company of the First Lady Chantal Biya …

Hatayspor’s Cameroonian midfielder, Kévin Soni has said that he survived the earthquake because of prayer. Soni, who is a Muslim, narrated that he had stayed up all night and decided not to sleep before his early morning prayers. He said he would have died if he had decided to take …

Modeste Mbami, a former Cameroonian footballer who played for Olympique de Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain before retiring at Le Havre, has died at the age of 40. The cause of death, according to reports, was a heart attack. He rose to prominence in Ligue 1 in the early 2000s before …

Inter Milan goalkeeper, Andre Onana has reportedly been dropped from Cameroon’s matchday squad against Serbia in the 2022 FIFA World Cup after refusing to change his goalkeeping style. Andre Onana started in Cameroon’s opening day 2022 FIFA World Cup defeat to Switzerland, but he has been left out of the …

Cameroonian President Paul Biya is officially the world’s oldest head of state after September 8. The ‘post’ was automatically conferred on the 89-year-old following the death of the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II on the same day. Buckingham Palace announced that the queen died peacefully at Balmoral in Scotland at …