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Covid-19 Statistics

	Positives Cases	Recovered	Deaths	Last Updated
World	10,829,468	6,048,749	519,397	07/02/2020
Europe	2 ,735,662	1,489,313	197,957	07/02/2020
The United States	2,780,152	1,164,794	130,798	07/02/2020
Africa	418,288	198,193	10,406	07/02/2020
China	84,816	79,650	4,641	07/02/2020

	Positives Cases	Recovered	Deaths	Last Updated
Cameroon	13,711	11,114	328	07/01/2020
Ivory Coast	9,702	4,381	68	07/02/2020
Senegal	6,925	4,545	116	07/02/2020
DRC	7,122	1,785	175	07/02/2020
France	165,719	76,539	29,861	07/02/2020
Italy	240,760	190,717	34,788	07/02/2020
Germany	196,361	180,300	9,061	07/02/2020
Belgium	61,598	17,044	9,761	07/02/2020
Spain	296,739	150,376	28,363	07/02/2020

	Positives Cases	Recovered	Deaths	Last Updated
Cameroon	13,711	11,114	328	07/01/2020
Ivory Coast	9,702	4,381	68	07/02/2020
Senegal	6,925	4,545	116	07/02/2020
DRC	7,122	1,785	175	07/02/2020
France	165,719	76,539	29,861	07/02/2020
Italy	240,760	190,717	34,788	07/02/2020
Germany	196,361	180,300	9,061	07/02/2020
Belgium	61,598	17,044	9,761	07/02/2020
Spain	296,739	150,376	28,363	07/02/2020

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Cameroon: Detained Ambazonia leaders hold secret talks with Yaounde regime over ceasefire

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Cameroon: Detained Ambazonia leaders hold secret talks with Yaounde regime over ceasefire

Published on 03.07.2020

The detained leadders of the Ambazonia separatist movement on Thursday night held a secret meeting with some members of government over a possible ceasefire in the Anglophone regions. A spokesperson for the separatist leaders confirmed the leader Julius Ayuk Tabe and nine others were taken out of their Kondengui cells…

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Cameroon: Yaounde in panic as another explosion injures at least two
Publié le 03.07.2020
At least two perons have been severely injured following an explosion in the Damas neighbourhood in Yaounde, sources have said. According to sources, a local…
politics
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Cameroon: Gunshots rock Buea as Paul Tasong continues reconstruction mission
Publié le 03.07.2020
Gunshots were heard in parts of Buea, South West Region early on Thursday morning as the Coordinator of the Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction of…
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Cameroon: Female student stabbed to death around University campus
Publié le 02.07.2020
A female student of the University of Yaounde II, Soa identified as Celestine Ngah Akoa enrolled in a Master programme in Private law at the…
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Cameroon:Gov’t finetunes strategy to fight COVID-19
Publié le 02.07.2020
Authorities of the Ministry of Public Health have urged to reinforce community mobilization as part of the response strategy to the COVID-19. The call was…
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Cameroon: Maroua waters claim another life
Publié le 02.07.2020
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Cameroon: RSF condemns detention of Anglophone journalist Kingsley Njoka
Publié le 01.07.2020
International Non-Government Organisation that safeguards the right to freedom of information, Reporters Without Borders, RSF has condemned the arrest and detention of Anglophone journalist Kingsley…
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Cameroon:WHO donates oxygen concentrators to help fight COVID-19
Publié le 02.07.2020
Cameroon’s response against the COVID-19 has received another huge boost with the acquisition of 183 Oxygen concentrators and 200 mortuary covers. The equipment, a donation…
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Cameroon: Custom officers intercept fake drugs in Adamawa region
Publié le 02.07.2020
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Cameroon: Coronavirus compels SOPECAM to slash budget by 10%
Publié le 01.07.2020
The Cameroon News and Publishing Corporation better known by its French acronym, SOPECAM has reduced its budget by 10.3% due to the Coronavirus pandemic and…
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Cameroonian-born Alain Nkontchou new Board Chair of Ecobank Group
Publié le 01.07.2020
Cameroonian-Born Alain Nkontchou is the new Board Chair of the Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, ETI. He was promoted to that position Tuesday June 30 during the…
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Cameroon: Two suspected human bone traffickers arrested in West region
Publié le 01.07.2020
Two presumed human bone traffickers have been arrested by Gendarmerie officials in Foumbot, a locality in the Noun Division, West region of Cameroon, less than…
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Cameroon: President Biya appoints new Ambassador to France
Publié le 30.06.2020
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Cameroon: Mamfe Council gets new Mayor
Publié le 30.06.2020
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CAF to pronounce itself on future of CHAN 2020, AFCON 2021 today
Publié le 30.06.2020
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Cameroon: Final year pupils sit official exams today amid COVID-19
Publié le 30.06.2020
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Cameroon/COVID-19: Hon. Joshua Osih wants travel restrictions imposed on Schengen countries
Publié le 29.06.2020
Hon. Joshua Osih of the Social Democratic Front party has called on President Biya to temporarily prohibit travel entry for visitors coming from Schengen countries…

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Cameroon: Yaounde in panic as another explosion injures at least two
Publié le 03.07.2020
At least two perons have been severely injured following an explosion in the Damas neighbourhood in Yaounde, sources have said. According to sources, a local…
politics
file photo

Cameroon: Gunshots rock Buea as Paul Tasong continues reconstruction mission
Publié le 03.07.2020
Gunshots were heard in parts of Buea, South West Region early on Thursday morning as the Coordinator of the Presidential Plan for the Reconstruction of…
Human interest
Late Celestine Ngah Akoa (c) copyright

Cameroon: Female student stabbed to death around University campus
Publié le 02.07.2020
A female student of the University of Yaounde II, Soa identified as Celestine Ngah Akoa enrolled in a Master programme in Private law at the…
Health

Cameroon:Gov’t finetunes strategy to fight COVID-19
Publié le 02.07.2020
Authorities of the Ministry of Public Health have urged to reinforce community mobilization as part of the response strategy to the COVID-19. The call was…
Human interest

Cameroon: Maroua waters claim another life
Publié le 02.07.2020
The body of a young boy has been retrieved from the waters of the Mayo Kaliao River in Maroua, Far North region of Cameroon. According…
Media
detained journalist, Kingsley Njoka (c) copyright

Cameroon: RSF condemns detention of Anglophone journalist Kingsley Njoka
Publié le 01.07.2020
International Non-Government Organisation that safeguards the right to freedom of information, Reporters Without Borders, RSF has condemned the arrest and detention of Anglophone journalist Kingsley…
Health

Cameroon:WHO donates oxygen concentrators to help fight COVID-19
Publié le 02.07.2020
Cameroon’s response against the COVID-19 has received another huge boost with the acquisition of 183 Oxygen concentrators and 200 mortuary covers. The equipment, a donation…
Health

Cameroon: Custom officers intercept fake drugs in Adamawa region
Publié le 02.07.2020
Custom officers say they have seized a consignment of illicit drugs in the Adamawa Region which was destined for the Cameroonian market. The drugs were…
Media
Entrace to SOPECAM (c) copyright

Cameroon: Coronavirus compels SOPECAM to slash budget by 10%
Publié le 01.07.2020
The Cameroon News and Publishing Corporation better known by its French acronym, SOPECAM has reduced its budget by 10.3% due to the Coronavirus pandemic and…
Success Story
Alain Nkontchou, new Board Chair of ETI (c) copyright

Cameroonian-born Alain Nkontchou new Board Chair of Ecobank Group
Publié le 01.07.2020
Cameroonian-Born Alain Nkontchou is the new Board Chair of the Ecobank Transnational Incorporated, ETI. He was promoted to that position Tuesday June 30 during the…
Life
(c) copyright

Cameroon: Two suspected human bone traffickers arrested in West region
Publié le 01.07.2020
Two presumed human bone traffickers have been arrested by Gendarmerie officials in Foumbot, a locality in the Noun Division, West region of Cameroon, less than…
Politics

Cameroon: President Biya appoints new Ambassador to France
Publié le 30.06.2020
Andre Ekoumou Magnus is the new ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cameroon to the Republic of France. He was appointed by Presidential…
Politics

Cameroon: Mamfe Council gets new Mayor
Publié le 30.06.2020
A new Mayor has been elected at the helm of the Mamfe Council in the South West region of Cameroon, in replacement of late Mayor…
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CAF to pronounce itself on future of CHAN 2020, AFCON 2021 today
Publié le 30.06.2020
The Confederation of African Football CAF will this Tuesday June 30 pronounce itself on the future of its major competitions, including the 2020 African Nations…
Education
Pupils sitting GCE at Du Vaal Institution in Douala (c) copyright

Cameroon: Final year pupils sit official exams today amid COVID-19
Publié le 30.06.2020
Pupils of class six and their counterparts of the Francophone sub-system today sit the Government Common Entrance examination into Form one and the concour d’entrée…
politics
SDF MP Hon. Joshu Osih (c) copyright

Cameroon/COVID-19: Hon. Joshua Osih wants travel restrictions imposed on Schengen countries
Publié le 29.06.2020
Hon. Joshua Osih of the Social Democratic Front party has called on President Biya to temporarily prohibit travel entry for visitors coming from Schengen countries…