Yaounde, Cameroon News

Ms. Antoinette Monsio Sayeh, Director of the International Monetary Fund African Department, visited Cameroon from May 10-12, 2013, to meet with the Cameroonian authorities and other stakeholders and to present the Regional Economic Outlook, Building Momentum in a Multi-Speed World .

Sodicam is the most popular international retailer within the expatriate community and the growing middle-class in Cameroon, and was aiming to open two new hypermarkets and two new supermarkets in Douala and Yaounde in 2012.

The President of the Republic has received a delegation of the African Regional Parliamentary Assembly of the Francophonie .

The atmosphere in and around the Yaounde Monte Febe Hotel is not very ordinary. There is intense activity since most of the senators began arriving ahead of their first ever ordinary session as of right to take place this Tuesday 14th May 2013.

The Director of the African Department in the International Monetary Fund, IMF, Antoinette Sayeh has recommended a better management of natural resources to boost growth and the transformation of the agricultural sector of Sub-Saharan African countries.

Facebook-page protesters said Sunday marks the 16th year French businessman Michel Antangana has been falsely imprisoned in Cameroon for political reasons.

The country has one of the highest per capita GDP in sub-Saharan Africa and IMF estimates Real GDP to grow at 4.1% to 4.5% between 2012 and 2013.

I wrote, a few weeks ago, about the joy of discovering the television of a foreign place .

YAOUNDE: A group of 17 gunmen entered an animal park in the Central African Republic, threatening "one of the biggest massacres of elephants" in the region, conservationist body WWF said Tuesday.

When Fabrice was brutally outed by his uncle, the young Cameroonian was immediately evicted from his rented room in the port city of Douala.

A French village buried a Cameroonian man who was found dead in the landing gear of an airplane that landed at a local airport, officials said.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon Floods are an annual occurrence in Cameroon's rainy season, but this year the possibility of damage to land or property is not what worries people most.

The crash site was in thick rainforest on the border of Cameroon and Congo, a remote mountainous area about 400 kilometres from the West African coast.

In this Oct. 7, 2011 file photo, people walk past a campaign billboard for President Paul Biya, in Yaounde, Cameroon.

YAOUNDE, 29 April 2013 - Tighter security in Cameroon's Far North Region due to the widening threat posed by Nigeria-based radical Islamist militia Boko Haram is stifling cross-border trade, hurting livelihoods and raising fear among civilians.

Islamist militant group Boko Haram was paid more than $3m before releasing a French family of seven, a Nigerian government report says.

Meeting in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde, members of the so-called Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission were continuing their work on the implementation of an International Court of Justice judgment regarding the demarcation of the boundary between the two neighbouring nations, UNOWA said in a news release.

Organised under the theme "The African Court on Human and Peoples Rights: Your new Partner in Strengthening the Protection of Human Rights in Africa" the three day meeting has been organized to inform major stake holders of the existence of the Human Right Court in Africa.

The seventh edition of the African Excellence awards has been organised in Yaounde under the theme "protecting African Values: the case of Yaounde the city of seven hills". The awards are intended to incite Africans to strive for excellence and to come up with creative and innovative ideas which can positively affect their respective domains.

Some renowned Cameroonian artists have joined their voice to that of the ministry of public health to sing against malaria.