Coaches put World Cup hopefuls out of their misery on Tuesday when they named their final squads, shattering dreams with a few surprise selections.
Though their light may have faded somewhat since they brightened up the world stage at Italia 1990, Cameroon are not to be underestimated.
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/ 18 January 2010
Day eight of the Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday dished up a five-goal thriller in Lubango and a potentially massive injury blow for Ghana.
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/ 14 January 2010
Gabon became the latest underdogs at the Africa Cup of Nations to punch above their weight when they beat continental giants Cameroon on Wednesday.
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/ 20 November 2009
History doesn’t favour the chances of African sides in the World Cup, but Phathisani Moyo has reason to believe that next year will be different.
Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Tunisia could qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa this weekend.
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/ 3 September 2009
Ghana could become the first African qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup this weekend while Cameroon and Egypt need to win to keep their hopes alive.
Four hostages who work for a service company in the oil industry have been freed off southern Cameroon’s Bakassi peninsula, sources said on Tuesday.
Pope Benedict XVI urged Cameroon’s bishops on Wednesday to defend the rights of the poor and essential values of the African family.
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/ 17 January 2009
Anyone who views the suffering of the masses as his own is a hero in the eyes of a freedom-loving people.
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/ 16 November 2008
Egypt’s Al Ahli won the African Champions League for a record sixth time on Sunday after beating Coton Sport of Cameroon 4-2 on aggregate.
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/ 1 November 2008
A death threat against six French hostages seized from an oil vessel off Cameroon has been lifted, a commander of a militia group said on Saturday.
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/ 31 October 2008
Gunmen in speedboats attacked an oil vessel off the coast of Cameroon early on Friday and seized at least 10 crew members including seven from France.
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/ 30 October 2008
Manyo Benard reports on how “Obamania” has gripped Cameroon.
Nine inmates were electrocuted to death on Wednesday while trying to escape from one of Cameroon’s largest prisons.
The Cameroon National Assembly has adopted a government proposal to amend the country’s Constitution — a move that paves the way for incumbent President Paul Biya to continue in office when his term expires in 2011. Six of the 70 articles that make up Cameroon’s Constitution were modified on April 10 by a vote of 157 in the 180-member legislature.
More than 100 people died in clashes between demonstrators and police in Cameroon last week, a local human rights group said on Wednesday in the absence of an official toll. "We can already say there are more than 100 dead. News comes in to us every day and we are still checking it out," Madeleine Afite of the Maison des Droits de L’Homme said.
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/ 29 February 2008
Cameroon’s main journalists’ union accused the government on Friday of trying to silence media coverage of anti-government riots after police shut down a popular radio station that aired criticism of the president. Magic FM 94, a private radio station in the capital Yaounde, was closed down by armed gendarmes on Thursday.
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/ 27 February 2008
Anti-government riots spread to Cameroon’s capital, Yaoundé, on Wednesday and police in the port of Douala also fired tear gas at protesters angry over high fuel and food prices. After four days of unrest that killed at least six people in western towns, including Douala, rioters blocked streets in Yaoundé with barricades of burning tyres and timber.
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/ 25 February 2008
At least four people were killed in Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, on Monday when protesters angry over the high cost of living barricaded streets in the port city, looted shops and clashed with riot police. The violence in the teeming city erupted after taxi drivers launched a strike to protest against petrol- and fuel-price hikes.
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/ 18 February 2008
A group of students, artists and workers in Cameroon has formed a movement to oppose President Paul Biya’s plan to reform the Constitution so that he can run for office again, a founder said on Monday. This movement considers that ”no modification of the Constitution can be envisaged before the vote for change scheduled for 2011”.
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/ 10 January 2008
Challenging for a record-equalling fifth African Nations Cup title in West Africa will fill Samuel Eto’o-inspired Cameroon with confidence. The Indomitable Lions have won the trophy three times in the region, a record no country can match, with Ghana (twice), Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire and Egypt the other countries to succeed there.
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/ 5 November 2007
Cameroon’s soccer federation are refusing to accept Otto Pfister as their new coach, rejecting his appointment by the country’s sports ministry last week. Fecafoot president Mohamed Iya has told Sports Minister Augustin Edjoa that the federation would not sign a proposed contract with the 70-year-old German coach.
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/ 28 October 2007
A head-on crash at night between two buses killed 23 people and injured 36 others in Cameroon, state radio reported on Sunday. A third bus crushed two people on a motorcycle and plunged into a ditch after swerving to avoid the collision, which happened on Saturday evening about 70km north of the Central African country’s commercial capital, Douala.
Veteran Cameroon President Paul Biya’s ruling party retained a sweeping majority in Parliament in last month’s legislative elections, albeit with slightly fewer seats, official results showed on Friday. The country’s Supreme Court said Biya’s Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement had won 140 of 180 seats in the National Assembly in the July 22 polls.
A total of 103 petitions have been filed to Cameroon’s highest court to annul results of this month’s legislative elections that handed President Paul Biya’s governing party a landslide victory, a court official said on Monday. A number of the 45 parties figuring on the election lists on July 22 had filed petitions, but most came from the main opposition parties.
Veteran Cameroon President Paul Biya’s ruling party routed the opposition in parliamentary elections on the weekend that his main opponents have already denounced as a sham, provisional results showed on Tuesday. Biya’s Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement secured a crushing majority of 152 of the 180 National Assembly seats.
Cameroon’s opposition on Monday said ”massive fraud” marred the country’s legislative elections and vowed to challenge the results in court even as votes were still being counted. ”These elections were a catastrophe,” said Joseph Lavoisier Tsapy of the main opposition Social Democratic Front. ”On the whole, they were not different from previous elections.”
Cameroon have advertised for a new national team coach despite sealing a berth at next year’s African Nations Cup with a 100% record in qualifying under caretaker Jules Nyongha. Cameron have won all three matches under Nyongha during his latest spell in charge after he stepped in to replace Dutch coach Arie Haan in March.
A court in the West African state of Cameroon has sentenced an editor to a six-month suspended sentence for publishing pictures allegedly showing a minister involved in homosexuality, the Cameroon Tribune newspaper said on Friday. He was found guilty of offending public morals and obscene publication.
A hunter in Cameroon has discovered the wreckage of a South African six-seater aircraft and two charred bodies on a mountainside three months after it disappeared, government officials said on Tuesday. The twin-engine Piper PA-34 went missing on February 24 after losing contact with air-traffic control during a flight from Togo to Cameroon’s city of Douala.
The pilot of a Kenya Airways plane that crashed in Cameroon this month decided to take off in stormy weather while other flights waited for conditions to improve, Cameroon’s civil aviation chief said on Tuesday. Cameroon has launched an investigation into the crash of the six-month-old Boeing 737-800.