Central Africa

Cape Town — Cameroonian legend and Makossa music icon Ben Decca and Cameroonian-born music producer Eduke have teamed up for a new single “Belembete”. Belembete means “pretentious” in Douala, a dialect cluster spoken by the Duala and Mungo people on the Cameroonian coast. Written by Ben Decca, Belembete was produced …

Luanda — The Council of Ministers of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) approved Thursday, by consensus, the candidate of Angola for the position of president of the organ’s Commission, Gilberto Verissimo, as part of the ongoing reform process. The two-day meeting held Wednesday and Thursday in Luanda …

Luanda — The authors of information circulating on social media alleging the involvement of the Angola’s Vice President Bornito de Sousa in the country’s massacre of May 27, 1977, should be brought to justice. The is contained in a press released from the Governing Bodies of Support to Vice Presidency, …

They have been urged to inspire hope in the population. Over 20 media practitioners from both the private and public media in the Littoral region have been trained on “Risk Communication” with focus on the Covid-19 pandemic. The training that took place on 29 of April 2020 at the Littoral …

Luanda — Savings and Credit Bank (BPC) plans to lay off 1,600 of the 4,820 workers by 2022, according to the company’s CEO, who said that the move is part of Recapitalisation and Restructuring Plan. Antonio Andre Lopes, who was speaking at a press conference on Thursday, said that the …

A surge in violence in the two months since April has seen nearly 200,000 people displaced from their homes in Ituri province, northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), say Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams working in the region. Currently, DRC is second only to Syria for the number of internally …

Some 300 days after popular Pidgin journalist Samuel Wazizi was arrested and held incommunicado by police in the south-western city of Buea, his alleged torture and death were announced in the Cameroonian media on Wednesday. Wazizi’s death was announced on Equinoxe television in the economic capital Douala, after reporting that …

From one neighbourhood to the other, the company authorities demonstrated how waste should be prepared before disposal. The waste collection and Disposal Company, Hygiene et salubrite du Cameroun (HYSACAM), has embarked on a sensitisation campaign to ensure that the population help in keeping the city of Douala clean while ensuring …

The platform to facilitate exchanges among is a panacea to the school boycott in NW/SW. An upper sixth student has come up with a computer application that facilitates exchange of knowledge among students, especially those in examination classes and those living in the North West and South west regions which …

Cambulo — At least 152 vulnerable families in the villages of Muamuxito, Catela, Cambongo, Sazuji, in eastern Lunda Norte, received on Wednesday basic foodstuff and hypertension tests, as part of the measures to prevent covid-19. According to the municipal administrator of Cambulo, Silvestre Cheleca, the program that will extend to …