Paul Biya is a Cameroonian politician who is the second president of Cameroon since November 6,1982,having previously been the prime minister of Cameroon from 1975 to 1982. He is the second-longest-ruling president in Africa,the longest consecutively serving current non-royal national leader in the world and the oldest head of state in the world. He is regarded as an authoritarian leader and a dictator.
The Centre Region occupies 69,000 km2 of the central plains of the Republic of Cameroon. It is bordered to the north by the Adamawa Region,to the south by the South Region,to the east by the East Region,and to the West by the Littoral and West Regions. It is the second largest of Cameroon's regions in land area. Major ethnic groups include the Bassa,Ewondo,and Vute.
Laurent Esso is a Cameroonian politician who is currently serving in Joseph Ngute's government.
Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo'o is a Cameroonian politician who has occupied multiple positions in the government of Cameroon and has served in the government of Cameroon as Minister of Transport from 2015 to 2017. An important security official,he was Delegate-General for National Security from 2004 to 2009 and Minister-Delegate at the Presidency for Defense from 2009 to 2015.
Amadou Ali was a Cameroonian politician. Born in Kolofata,he was Minister of Justice since 2001 and a Deputy Prime Minister since 2004. He served as Deputy Prime Minister,Minister Delegate at the presidency in charge of Relations with the Parliament.
Louis-Paul Motazé is a Cameroonian politician who has served in the government of Cameroon as Minister of the Economy since 2015. He previously served as Minister of the Economy from 2007 to 2011 and as Secretary-General of the Office of the Prime Minister of Cameroon from 2011 to 2015. Since 2 March 2018,he has been Minister of Finance of Cameroon.
Ayos is a town and commune in the department of Nyong-et-Mfoumou Centre region of Cameroon.
Fotokol is a town and commune in Logone-et-Chari Department,Far North Region,Cameroon. It is home to Fotokol High School.
Kolofata is a town and commune in Cameroon.
As of 31 August 2020,Cameroon hosted a total refugee population of approximately 421,700. Of these,280,500 were from the Central African Republic,driven by war and insecurity. In the Far North Region,Cameroon hosts 114,300 Nigerian refugees,with the population sharing their already scarce resources with the refugees.
Edith Kahbang Walla,popularly known as Kah Walla,is a Cameroonian politician,entrepreneur and social activist. She went into politics in 2007 with the Social Democratic Front (SDF),the then main Cameroonian opposition party and was then elected into the municipal council of Douala I. In 2010,she resigned from SDF following a divergence over strategy and declared her intention to run for the 2011 presidential election on October 23,2010. On April 30,2011,she was elected as the president of the Cameroon People's Party (CPP) and party candidate for 2011 presidential election.
Presidential elections were held in Cameroon on 7 October 2018.
Ahmed Abba is a Cameroonian journalist,correspondent for the Hausa broadcast service operated by Radio France Internationale. He was questioned and detained for his reportage on Boko Haram and was incarcerated in Cameroon for 876 days. He was released in Yaoundéon December 22,2017.
Clement Mbashie,better known by his nom de guerre "General No Pity",is an Ambazonian separatist who commands several militant groups,most importantly the Bambalang Marine Forces and Bui Unity Warriors,in the Anglophone Crisis.
Events in the year 2022 in Cameroon.
Arsène Salomon Mbani Zogo,better known as Martinez Zogo,was a Cameroonian journalist and radio presenter known for his radio show Embouteillage,which reported upon government corruption in Cameroon. In January 2023,Zogo was abducted,tortured and assassinated;over twenty members of Cameroon's intelligence service,the Direction générale de la recherche extérieure,have subsequently been arrested for his death,in addition to Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga,a Cameroonian media magnate.
The Battle of Darak,also called the Darak massacre,occurred on June 9,2019,when Boko Haram fighters loyal to Abubakar Shekau attacked a Cameroonian and MNJTF military base in Darak,Far North Region. The attack was the deadliest in Cameroonian history since the start of the Boko Haram insurgency.
Rolande Adèle Ngo Issi Kella Simgwa is a Cameroonian politician,serving as a member of the national assembly,an alternate member of the Superior Council of the Judiciary,and deputy secretary general of the Network of Women Parliamentarians of Cameroon. Additionally,she holds the position of secretary general of the regional delegation of the Cameroonian Party for National Reconciliation (PCRN) for the Center region.
Julienne Niat Ngoumou was a Cameroonian politician. She was the president of the first national movement of Cameroonian women (Assofecam) in 1950 and the first woman to run for legislative elections in Cameroon in November 1951.
