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A 15-match ban imposed on Cameroon captain Samuel Eto'o for sparking a players' strike has been reduced to eight months, the national football federation said on Saturday. The original suspension of the four-time African Footballer of the Year triggered widespread anger in a central African country reeling from their failure to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations. Officials
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Bafut — Starved of electricity but with plentiful methane-rich manure, rural livestock farmers in this heavily agricultural nation have become unlikely heroes and beneficiaries of Africa's fight to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Take 46-year-old Juliana Mengue, who was widowed five years ago and has to care by herself for 40 cows on her a one-and-half acre farm in Bafut village
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Anzhi Makhachkala forward Samuel Eto’o has set up a mobile network in his homeland Cameroon meant to create cheap access to communication for the population, while becoming the third mobile network operator in the central African nation behind French-owned Orange Telecom and South Africa-based multinational MTN. Set’Mobile was launched on Thursday in Yaounde with more than 50,000 SIM cards already
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Electricity lines that carry no current are strewn across the village of Mparo in eastern Cameroon, but residents hope a long-promised diamond mine will help turn on the lights. The discovery of the Mobilong diamond field not far from the village located some 700 kilometres (440 miles) from the capital Yaounde, could vastly improve what is now a difficult life
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Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) is preparing for hitch-free elections in 2012. Cameroon's elections governing body, Elections Cameroon (ELECAM), will in 2012 organise the expected parliamentary and council elections in the country. This will be the second time ELECAM will be organizing elections after the October 9, 2011 presidential election in which 23 candidates contested. The electoral law states that registration on
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Algeria have received $500,000 in compensation after the Samuel Eto'o-led Cameroon players' strike which forced the cancellation of a friendly between the two countries. The payment, confirmed on Friday by the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT), comes in the same week that Eto'o was handed a 15-match international ban for his role as ringleader in the action. Cameroon were due to
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Cameroon banned reigning African Footballer of the Year Samuel Eto'o for 15 matches Friday after a players' strike forced a friendly fixture in Algeria last month to be cancelled. The surprisingly harsh punishment was meted out by the Cameroon Football Federation (FECAFOOT) disciplinary committee and reported on the website of the governing body. National team striker and captain Eto'o has
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A court in Yaounde has sentenced three Cameroonian men arrested in July to five years in prison for engaging in gay sex, their lawyer said Wednesday. The Ekounou court sentenced the three on Tuesday to five years imprisonment and a fine, the heaviest sentence provided by Cameroonian law, which bans homosexuality, Michel Togue told AFP. Two of the convicted men
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In order to popularise female condoms in Cameroon, local organisations promote them through hair salons, workrooms and other small shops. But instead of selling the condoms, the managers are giving them away to the clients in order to clear their stocks. 'La Chance Beauté' is a hair salon located in the Emana neighbourhood, in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. The
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The number of people on anti-retroviral treatment in the country has now increased to over 100,000. The severity of the AIDS epidemic that affects every continent and especially the poor, its present and foreseeable consequences on the social and political stability of states justify the interest and commitment of the Minister of Public Health, André Mama Fouda. Knowing how central
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A probe by Cameroon's anti-graft body found that 45 million euros ($62 million) in public funds had been lost or embezzled, according to a report, a copy of which was obtained by AFP Friday. The National Anti-Corruption Commission (Conac) said in its first report since its creation by President Paul Biya in 2006 that the money had gone missing from
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Yaounde - Cameroonian President Paul Biya was inaugurated for a sixth term on Thursday after winning a presidential election on October 9 that the opposition has charged was marred by fraud. The 78-year-old who has been in power since 1982 took the oath of office at the national assembly in the capital Yaounde. -
Experts in the fight against cholera met in Yaounde last Friday to evaluate the draft document pending its final validation. Cameroon has been hit by cholera epidemics for several decades. The most recent epidemic which began in the Far North Region on May 6, 2010 has already affected 10,759 people, killing 657 others. Statistics from the Ministry of Public Health
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Cameroon should install fair elections procedures to spare it from holding more fraudulent votes that tarnish the nation's reputation, opposition leader John Fru Ndi told AFP Wednesday. Fru Ndi finished second with nearly 11 percent support in Cameroon's October 9 vote that saw President Paul Biya, in power for 29 years, comfortably re-elected with 78 percent of the votes. Before
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Yaoundé — The results of the presidential election in Cameroon have been published on 21 October. Paul Biya, the country's president for the past 29 years, has been re-elected for another seven-year term. His re-election has caused mixed feelings amongst the Cameroonian youth. "The election was marred by fraud but the opposition did not play its role either", laments young
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Cameroon's main opposition party charged Sunday that "dead people" voted in October 9 elections that returned longtime president Paul Biya to office for a sixth time. "The Supreme Court has ratified dead people's votes," the Social Democratic Front (SDF) said in a statement, two days after the highest court validated the polls and issued official results. "Despite the requests by
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Cameroon coach Javier Clemente has refused to stepped down from his post despite failing to qualify the Indomitable Lions for next year’s Orange African Nations Cup as speculation continue to grow over his future. Local media has reported the Cameroon Football Federation Fecafoot has already made contacts with Cotonsport coach Denis Lavagne to take over the job but Clemente is
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France, which previously termed Cameroon's October 9 presidential vote "acceptable", on Saturday said the poll which saw President Paul Biya re-elected to a sixth term was marred by "irregularities." "During the vote, a number of flaws and irregularities were noted," foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said in a statement. "France hopes that measures will be taken so that these do
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Yaounde — With the results in all the 10 regions of the country already released, incumbent Paul Biya is leading in nine of the ten regions, losing only in Fru Ndi's region of origin, the Northwest where he scored 42.6 per cent as against Fru Ndi's 54.75 per cent. On the other hand, Biya scored 96.57 per cent in his
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Cameroon's President Paul Biya was reelected for a sixth term with about 78 percent of the votes cast in the October 9 election, the country's supreme court said Friday. Biya, who is 78 and has been in power for 29 years, beat long-time opposition leader John Fru Ndi who took just under 11 percent of the vote. Turnout was 66
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Cameroon's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an opposition bid to annul this month's presidential election, paving the way for the results to be published. Incumbent Paul Biya is widely expected to return for a sixth term following the October 9 vote which the opposition argues should be nullified due to electoral fraud. The supreme court, which sat into the small
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Ten Cameroonian presidential candidates have filed requests with the Supreme Court for the October 9 poll to be nullified over alleged irregularities, an AFP correspondent reported Thursday. The west African country's opposition argues that 78-year-old incumbent Paul Biya, who has been in power 29 years, has been rigging his way to a sixth term. Cameroon's Supreme Court had by Thursday
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Cameroon captain Samuel Eto'o has been linked with a move back to Inter Milan, just two months after he left the club in a big-money move to Russian Premier League side Anzhi Makhachkala. La Gazzetta dello Sport claims Eto'o has approached Inter about a possible loan move back to the nerazzurri during the Russian winter break, which lasts from November
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Cameroon's opposition leaders demanded Tuesday that a weekend presidential election, widely expected to return Paul Biya for a sixth term, be nullified due to widespread irregularities. "We are favourable to the vote's annulment," said Joshua Osih, vice chairman of the Social Democratic Front, whose leader John Fru Ndi was seen as Biya's main challenger in Sunday's ballot. "This election cannot
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Polling officials in Cameroon on Monday counted the votes of a presidential election that looked certain to extend incumbent Paul Biya's 29-year rule but was called a "mess" by the opposition. Sunday's vote was marked by widespread voter apathy, with Biya's reelection never in doubt, but was also marred by the killings of two policemen and an opposition official. A
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