Cameroon couple win asylum seeker status after long fight
18 May 2012, 4:17 pm
Playwright Lydia Besong and her husband, Bernard Batey, can stay in the north west after their campaign was successful The news that a Cameroon playwright and her husband have won their asylum case after a long battle has been welcomed by campaigners. A campaign by leading writers to halt the removal of Lydia Besong and her husband Bernard Batey from the UK has been successful. In January ...

Cameroon: IMF/World Bank Mission Outlines Conditions
17 May 2012, 3:18 pm
[Cameroon Tribune] Prime Minister Philemon Yang on May 16 received the institutions' officials.

Cameroon Country Facts
17 May 2012, 2:23 pm
Basic facts about Cameroon, one of Africa's western countries.

Cameroon federation ditches Milla
17 May 2012, 7:54 am
Cameroon's World Cup star Roger Milla is removed as honorary president of his country's football federation.

Cameroon robusta coffee exports nosedive
17 May 2012, 5:51 am
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon robusta coffee exports hit 7,433 tonnes by the end of April since the season started in December, marking a nearly 60 percent decline from the 18,042 tonnes exported during the same period a year ago, according to official figures. The National Cocoa and Coffee Board, which released the figures late on Wednesday, said the decline in exports may be due to farmers ...

Milla dismissed after criticising Cameroon federation
17 May 2012, 5:46 am
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon's soccer federation has dismissed former striker Roger Milla from his post as honorary president of the organisation after his calls for a clean-up of the leadership. Milla set up a committee last month to press for the axing of the football federation executive, blaming them for the country's poor performance in recent years and the eight-month suspension of ...

Cameroon recall vice captain Eyong Enoh
16 May 2012, 11:58 am
Cameroon have released a list of 26 players called up to take part in the upcoming qualifying of the 2014 Fifa World Cup and the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations.

Cameroon cocoa prices fall on poor roads, rain
15 May 2012, 6:35 am
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Farmgate cocoa prices in Cameroon's main growing regions have fallen by as much as 6 percent since April as heavy rains have hampered drying of beans and further damaged unpaved roads needed to transport the beans to port, farmers said on Tuesday. Prices fell to between 925 and 940 CFA francs per kg in Bafia, the main growing hub in the Centre region, from about 960 to 975 ...

Bollore to invest in Cameroon high-speed rail -CEO
15 May 2012, 1:16 am
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - French financier Vincent Bollore said on Monday that his investment group Bollore plans to invest about 50 billion CFA francs in a high-speed train line linking Cameroon's capital Yaounde to its commercial hub Douala. Speaking to journalists after meeting Cameroon's President Paul Biya, Bollore, chief executive of the French family conglomerate, said the group also plans to ...

New Cameroon bond auction oversubscribed
11 May 2012, 7:49 am
YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon's May 9 auction of 10 billion CFA francs worth of treasury bonds was oversubscribed, with 25.49 billion CFA of bids with interest rates ranging from 1.95 to 5 percent, the Finance Ministry said in a statement. The auction was part of plans by the country to issue 285 billion CFA francs worth of treasury bonds in 2012 to fund infrastructure projects. The first ones ...