Public condemnation has greeted the decision by the Cameroon Government to impose levy to run COVID-19 test which has been free before now. Ferdinand Ngoh Ngoh, Secretary General at the Presidency of Cameroon, had addressed a letter to Seraphin Magloire Fouda, the Secretary General in the Prime Minister’s Office, on Wednesday, April 6, announcing that […]
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Thirty-five per cent of Cameroonian enterprises had their orders cancelled due to the lack of raw materials to produce their manufactured goods as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the report of an evaluation of the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus in Cameroon during the year 2021 just published by the National Institute […]
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced the opening of a credit line of 7.8 billion FCFA (about 14 million US dollars or 12 million euros) in the Commercial Bank of Cameroon (CBC) “to support the resilience of Cameroonian enterprises in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.” The announcement was made during the European Union-African […]
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The Human Rights and Liberties Commission of the Cameroon Bar Council has kicked against the pressure employed by the government to force citizens and civil servants to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The Bar Council says the government is enforcing the mandatory vaccination even when there is no legislative text both nationally and internationally making it […]
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After a relative drop in the number of deaths and infections due to the COVID-19, Cameroon has been witnessing a new surge in COVID-19 deaths and infections. According to new figures released by the Ministry of Public Health, Cameroon is currently facing the third wave of the pandemic. Between Aug. 10 and 25, the country […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic that has been ravaging the world for over one year now has caused a drop of 35 per cent in direct foreign investments in Cameroon during the year 2020. According to the National Technical Committee on the Balance of Payments, Cameroon was able to attract 341.3 billion FCFA (about 680 million US […]
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The Government of Cameroon has received the first lot of 158,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccines are the first of 5.3 million doses ordered by the government within the context of the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) under the auspices of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the African Centre […]
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Over one hundred thousand persons were vaccinated during the four-day massive national vaccination campaign that was launched in Cameroon between July 7 and 11, 2021, the National Enlarged Vaccination Programme has announced. According to the Ministry of Public Health, the aim of the massive campaign, which was the second since the outbreak of COVID-19 in […]
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The Cameroon Government has placed an order for 5.3 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. The country expects to vaccinate 20 per cent of the national population before and during the African Nations Cup (AFCON) competition which will be hosted by Cameroon from January 9 to February 6, 2022. Dr Manaouda Malachie, […]
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Cameroon’s Prime Minister and Head of Government, Joseph Dion Ngute, was last week interrogated by investigators of the Special Criminal Tribunal in connection with the scandal concerning the embezzlement of over 180 billion FCFA (about US$360 million) which was a subvention from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to help Cameroon combat COVID-19. According to sources […]
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The President of Cameroon’s Senate, Marcel Niat Njifenji, has blamed the increasing rate of COVID-19 infections in the country on the lack of an effective communication strategy to spur citizens into taking the vaccine. The Senate President said the government needs to intensify and multiply the communication operations to educate Cameroonians against resisting the vaccination. […]
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Cameroon’s President, Paul Biya, has signed a decree adjusting the 2021 budget to make for the provision of an extra 200 billion FCFA (about US$400 million) to the National Solidarity Fund for the fight against the coronavirus. The initial budgetary allocation for the fund contained in the national budget voted by the National Assembly in […]
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