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Africa’s climate adaptation: Cameroon’s emerging mosaic of resilience stands out
Down to Earth
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One morning in early July, the people of Ngaoundere in Cameroon’s Adamawa region woke up to the sound of water tearing through their neighbourhoods. Torrential rains, whipped by violent winds, tore roofs off houses, battered homes, and left roads...
In Cameroon, “anti-gospel acts” Causing Discontent ahead of 2025 Presidential Poll: Catholic Archbishop Urges Fraternity
ACI Africa
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August 12, 2025
“These ills, so often decried, pervert relations between citizens and those in power, and give rise to abuse of power and injustice,” the Local Ordinary of Douala says. Amid all the misdeeds, the Cameroonian Catholic Archbishop says that “at the...
Police Arrest 2 Suspects, Impound Cameroon-bound PMS Boat
Leadership
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August 13, 2025
Marine police operatives on the waterways of Mbo local government area of Akwa Ibom State have smashed an illegal bunkering syndicate. They arrested two suspected oil thieves and impounded a wooden boat loaded with the product around the Okposo...
Donald Trump trade tariffs: Country-wise, product-specific taxes. Check full list
The Economic Times
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August 12, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war with an array of tariffs that target individual products and countries. Trump has set a baseline tariff of 10 per cent on all imports to the United States, as well as additional duties on...
Flutterwave’s ‘Pay with Bank Transfer’ surged by 198% in processing value in 1 year
Technext
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August 12, 2025
Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave, has revealed that its total processed value (TPV) in Pay with Bank Transfer surged by 198.08% between H1 2024 and H1 2025. The Nigerian-based company attributed the surge to customers’...
Labor Shortages, Declines in Tourism Plague US Economy Under Trump
Truthout
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August 12, 2025
Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! The Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda is leading to labor shortages across the country and, some speculate, a drop in international...
Cameroon plans 100,000 smart solar streetlights to save CFA4bn yearly
Business in Cameroon
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August 12, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - Spain’s Salvi Lighting Barcelona has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Cameroonian government, represented by Minister of Water and Energy Gaston Eloundou Essomba, to prepare studies for the supply and...
Cameroon forecasts CFA3,200–5,400/kg cocoa prices for 2025-2026
Business in Cameroon
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August 12, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon’s Minister of Trade expects producer prices for cocoa to remain strong throughout the 2025-2026 season, which officially began on August 7, 2025, in Mbankomo, a major production area in the country’s Center...
Walton expands brand business to 7 new countries in last fiscal year
The Financial Express Bangladesh
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Tech giant Walton Hi-Tech Industries PLC, listed on the capital market, is moving forward in the international market with the goal of becoming one of the world's leading global electronics brands. To achieve that goal, the company is showing...
How Man United can afford Baleba despite dire financial warnings
Sporting News
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August 12, 2025
There is little wonder as to why Manchester United reportedly want to sign Carlos Baleba. Anyone who did not keep a close eye on Brighton & Hove Albion's weekly exertions last season will by now have seen the various highlight reels showing the...
Cameroon Academy of Sciences Week: Scientists mobilise to boost country'...
The Guardian Post
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Discussions to this effect are the essence of the third edition of the 2025 CAS Week of Science in the service of National Development. It opened in Yaounde Tuesday, July 29, and ended July 31 with the reading of the general report. The ceremony...
Walton expands business to 7 countries in 2024
New Age Bangladesh
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Business Desk 12 August, 2025, 23:58 Tech giant Walton Hi-Tech Industries PLC is moving forward in the international market with the goal of becoming one of the world’s leading global electronics brands. According to Walton Global Business...
Yaounde: WIPO, OAPI regional conference maps strategies to bolster creat...
The Guardian Post
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Presided over by the Minister of Arts and Culture, Bidoung Mkpatt, the two-day event brought together key stakeholders, including the Secretary General of the Ministry of Mines, Industry and Technological Development, the Director General of OAPI,...
Youth Sounding Board Cameroon scheme: EU...
The Guardian Post
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This was during a farewell ceremony of the first cohort of the YSB Cameroon. The YSB Cameroon is an initiative of the EU to Cameroon. Officials said it is aimed at ensuring the meaningful involvement of young people in shaping EU policies and...
Government commissions new management of NFC Bank
The Guardian Post
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Installing the team on Monday, July 28, in Yaounde, the Minister of Finance, Louis Paul Motaze, traced the road that government had trod with the NFC Bank, the provisional administration and other stakeholders for more than a decade culminating...
Gov't launches biodiversity finance initiative to check ecosystem loss
The Guardian Post
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The Minister of Finance, Louis Paul Motaze, did the launching in Yaounde on July 29, alongside other Ministers including Hele Pierre of Environment and Nature Protection; Prof Marie Therese Abena Ondoua of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, and...
BioMark Diagnostics Establishes African Market Presence Through Strategic Tunisia Healthcare Partnership
The Kingston Whig-Standard
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August 12, 2025
Breadcrumb Trail Links Newsfile Proof-of-Concept Trial Opens Door to 90+ Million Population Across North Africa and Francophone Markets Article content Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – August 12, 2025) – BioMark Diagnostics Inc. (CSE:...
Implementation of Cameroon-EU EPA: Customs DG tasks collaborators to eas...
The Guardian Post
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Fongod was speaking on Wednesday, July 30, while presiding a meeting of the EPA Subcommittee on Customs and Trade Facilitation. The meeting took place at the headquarters of the General Directorate of Customs in Yaounde. He said the session was a...
Mt Cameroon National Park: Voice of Nature offers endangered tree specie...
The Guardian Post
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VoNaT Executive Director handing trees to residents Environmental Non-Governmental Organisation, Voice of Nature, VoNat, has donated threatened trees species to some residents living around the Mount Cameroon National Park. The exercise was...
Academic warns that Biya’s long rule in Cameroon signals deeper problems for African leadership
Fresh Angle
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The recent announcement by Cameroon’s 92-year-old President, Paul Biya, that he will seek re-election has reignited debates around prolonged leadership in Africa. Biya, who has been in office for 43 years, would be nearing 100 should he complete...