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Nov
17
2022
By The African Mirror
World Cup 2022: Senegal and Cameroon carry Africa’s best hopes

World Cup 2022: Senegal and Cameroon carry Africa’s best hopes

SPORT
THE men’s Fifa World Cup kicks off on 20 November in Qatar. Africa is allocated five spots in the month-long final stage of this elite competition, held every four years. Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia secured their places after a preliminary knockout phase followed by a four-team round-robin competition. Once again, many pundits are wondering if an African team can win it all at this unconventionally scheduled World Cup (it’s usually held mid-year). No African team has ever qualified for the semi-finals. Only Senegal, Cameroon and Ghana have reached the quarter-final stage before. Author WYCLIFFE W. NJORORAI SIMIYU, Professor,…
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Nov
11
2022
By The African Mirror
Ngadeu-Ngadjui left out as Cameroon name squad for World Cup

Ngadeu-Ngadjui left out as Cameroon name squad for World Cup

SPORT
CAMEROON left out long-serving centre-back Michael Ngadeu-Ngadjui from their squad for the World Cup in a shock omission as coach Rigobert Song named his 26-man selection for Qatar. The coach also surprisingly included two home-based players -- Souaibou Marou and Jerome Ngom -- who had won their first caps just hours before in a friendly against Jamaica. The team will be captained by Vincent Aboubakar, who competed as a teenager at the 2010 World Cup and again in Brazil in 2014 when the Indomitable Lions last appeared at the finals. It will also be a third World Cup for defender…
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Nov
06
2022
By The African Mirror
Cameroon Kick Off: 600 girls, women, 162 matches: the 2nd edition of La Ligue D’Égalité starts

Cameroon Kick Off: 600 girls, women, 162 matches: the 2nd edition of La Ligue D’Égalité starts

SPORT
AFTER a successful first season of La Ligue D'Égalité, the second edition kicked off even stronger, with more than double the number of girls joining the league hoping to pursue their dreams of becoming young football stars.  The football league based in Yaoundé, Cameroon is aimed at girls under 13 and 15 years old and organized by NGO Petrichor and LaLiga, with the collaboration of its foundation and its women's football department.  This socio-sports programme was created with the aim of giving girls in the central region of Cameroon the opportunity to take part in a fully regulated football league,…
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Nov
06
2022
By The African Mirror
Cameroon’s fortunes a long way off their 1990 heroics

Cameroon’s fortunes a long way off their 1990 heroics

SPORT
MARK GLEESON CAMEROON'S image as World Cup gatecrashers, capable of taking down top contenders and wreaking havoc, has faded away after two decades of failure at the finals. There will be limited expectations of the Indomitable Lions in Qatar, where they are in a tough group with Brazil, Serbia and Switzerland, after their failure to make any impact since their fabled exploits at Italia '90. That remains their high point as a charismatic side caught the world's imagination with equal measures of trickery and aggression and became the first Africans to reach the last eight. Resplendent in their colourful green,…
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Apr
16
2022
By The African Mirror
U.S. grants relief to Cameroon immigrants

U.S. grants relief to Cameroon immigrants

NEWS
KRISTINA COOKE and MICA ROSENBERG THE Biden administration will grant temporary deportation relief and work permits to Cameroonians living in the United States due to the ongoing conflict between government forces and armed separatists in that country, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced. The decision will apply to Cameroonians residing in the United States by April 14 and last a period of 18 months, DHS said. An estimated 12,000 Cameroonians will be eligible for the status, according to the department. President Joe Biden has championed the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, which grants immigrants who cannot return…
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Apr
12
2022
By The African Mirror
Google sues alleged Cameroonian puppy scammer

Google sues alleged Cameroonian puppy scammer

NEWS
PARESH DAVE ALPHABET INC'S Google sued an alleged puppy scammer who used its services to sell fake pets, the first of what the company said would be a growing number of lawsuits targeting apparent misuse by its users. Elder advocacy group AARP tipped Google to the scam last September following a complaint from a South Carolina resident who had sent $700 in digital gift cards to an online seller for a basset hound puppy that never came, according to Google's lawsuit in U.S. district court in San Jose. Google is seeking monetary damages and a court order banning the accused user,…
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Sep
27
2021
By The African Mirror
Mapping the contours of Jihadist groups in the Sahel

Mapping the contours of Jihadist groups in the Sahel

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
THE Sahel region, an area covering 3 million sq km, has been a hotbed of Islamic Jihadi groups in recent years. FOLAHANMI AINA, Doctoral Candidate in Leadership Studies, King's College London Today, the region has no fewer than seven insurgent groups scattered in six countries. The area stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean and encompasses a dozen countries. These include Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal. Jihadi groups have taken advantage of a number of underlying conditions, which fuel local grievances across the Sahel. These include endemic…
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Sep
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Cameroon sentences four men to death

Cameroon sentences four men to death

NEWS
JOSIANE KOUAGHEU A court in Cameroon has sentenced four people to death for their roles in a shooting attack on a school last year that killed seven children and wounded 12 others, according to a court document seen by Reuters on Wednesday. A military court in Buea, the capital of Cameroon's South West region, found the men guilty of terrorism, assassination, and attempted secession, according to its judgment, which was issued on Tuesday. The men were sentenced to execution by firing squad in the town square, but their sentences are likely to be converted to life imprisonment. Cameroon has not…
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Aug
04
2021
By The African Mirror
MSF leaves Cameroon’s restive region

MSF leaves Cameroon’s restive region

NEWS
INTERNATIONAL aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said it had been forced to withdraw its teams from Cameroon's restive Northwest region where the government has been battling separatists for over four years. The withdrawal follows a prolonged suspension of its operations in the region by the government of Cameroon, officially for a review. Local government and military officials have accused MSF of supporting armed groups, which the organisation denies. "We cannot stay any longer in a region where we are not allowed to provide care to people," said Emmanuel Lampaert, MSF's operations coordinator for Central Africa, in a statement. Lampaert…
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