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Mobile money, with 290 live services in 95 countries and 372 million active accounts, has entered the mainstream and is becoming the path to financial inclusion in most low-income countries, according to an annual report on the state of the industry published by the GSMA firm.
A dozen people were killed Sunday night in the Far North region of Cameroon after a twin suicide bombing blamed on the Islamist sect Boko Haram, according to local sources contacted by phone by APA.
The ruling Cameroon Peoples Democratic Movement (RDPC) has won the 13 parliamentary seats up for grabs in 11 constituencies in the country’s Anglophone North-West and South-Western regions.
About 20 road transport unions in Cameroon have sent a strike notice to the Prime Minister of Cameroon, Mr. Joseph Dion Ngute, over the “economic shock” from the harsh anti-Covid-19 measures of the government.
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has urged secessionist armed groups in the Cameroonian regions of the North West and South West to follow the example of the Defense Forces of Southern Cameroon (Socadef), which have agreed to a temporary unilateral and provisional ceasefire in order to facilitate the fight against the coronavirus.
The Permanent Secretariat of the Economic and Financial Reform Programme called on member countries of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) to urgently review their public spending priorities in relation to the coronavirus pandemic.
The Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango died at 86 from a coronavirus infection, his family announced Tuesday.
The government of Cameroon and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Tuesday announced the postponement “to a later date” of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Applicants for entry visas to Cameroon will now have to attach to their files the results of a coronavirus test carried out by an approved institution, APA can report on Friday.
A 58-year-old French national has tested positive for the coronavirus in Cameroon, APA learnt in a statement issued Friday by Public Health Minister, Manaouda Malachie.