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22 Dec 2020 Members of the Nigerian Islamic terror group Boko Haram have established close ties in neighboring Cameroon’s political and business circles in recent months, a Cameroonian government official said, Voice of America (VOA) reported over the weekend. “Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of Cameroon’s Far North region, on Nigeria’s border, says that within the past two months, Boko Haram has been establishing ties with top officials of his region. He spoke via a messaging app from the...

Cameroon Price Bulletin, December 2020 Format The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year. Sorghum, maiz...

English By Moki Edwin Kindzeka Share on Facebook Print this page YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - A Cameroonian official said Friday he had found evidence that, as widely suspected, Boko Haram militants have been establishing close ties in Cameroonian political and business circles. The revelation came after Cameroons military arrested a former lawmaker for allegedly supplying cattle to the Nigerian terrorist group. Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of Cameroon�...

University Games : Leadership Battle Intensifies The Higher Institute of Youth and Sports is topping the classification table with 13 gold medals far ahead of the University of Ngaoundere with six gold medals. Lire aussi : Fighting Emerging Diseases: Cameroon Determined To Reduce Dependence The 21st edition of the University Games entered the fifth playing day yesterday May 8, 2018. A total of 2,663 athletes are taking part in different sports disciplines. Reports from Maroua say the competit...

(Business in Cameroon) - On December 11, at the checkpoint of Frolinat in Maroua, agents of the Cameroonian customs seized 146 cartons of dubious pharmaceutical products (certainly coming from Nigeria). In Ngaoundéré, 24 hours later, customs agents seized one ton of African print fabrics, official sources inform. According to the customs, all these shipments were seized in the framework of the operation Halcomi. Carried out all over the country for several months now, the operation is aimed a...

Journey into shadow of Boko Haram death in Cameroon In August and September 2020, the Bible Society of Cameroon experienced two tragic losses: Jonas and Joseph, two Parkwa language literacy facilitators, were killed in separate attacks on their village in the Far North region, by Islamic militant group Boko Haram. As the main leader of the Bible Society of Cameroon, I decided to travel to their village in order to comfort the grieving families. I also felt that visiting would help me to better ...

Canadian High Commission Yaoundé Canada has knighted Barrister Felix Agbor Nkongho alias Agbor Balla, President of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA for confronting human rights abuses and violations head-on. Cameroon’s leading human rights defender won the 2020 Irwin Cotler Award for Human Rights Defenders in Cameroon. Handing over the award on December 10 at his official residence in Yaoundé, Canada’s High Commissioner to Cameroon, H.E. Richard Bal...

Maroua mini dairy plant resumes operations thanks to the EU’s support (Business in Cameroon) - The mini dairy plant in Maroua (capital of the Far North, which is one of the main cattle rearing regions in Cameroon) is operational again, since November 5, 2020. Commissioned in 2019, this agro-industrial unit was shut down three months later due to various difficulties, including a lack of raw materials. The plant resumed operations thanks to the financial assistance of XAF100 million pr...