Trending news stories in Cameroon – 2nd July 2021

CRTV General Manager, Charles Ndongo has justified his reason for not including any Anglophone on the list of appointed Directors. To him, his appointments were all based on competence.

A woman of Nigerian origin has been shot and killed today by separatist fighters in Kumba. She was inside a private “Clando” vehicle on her way back to Nigeria when separatist fighters opened fire on the car.

Lawyers defending Malicka Bayemi against Martin Camus have accused the attorney general of the Douala Court of First Instance of delaying processes to push through the sextape leak case. They say a direct summon has not yet been made despite it already being 8 days late.

10 Cameroonians have perished in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Tunisia. They were in a group of 20 who boarded a makeshift boat to travel to Italy through the ocean.

The D.O. of Douala IV in the Littoral region has been accused of extorting money from health facilities under his jurisdiction. The administrator, some say, has sealed some private clinics and is demanding the sum of 100,000FCFA for them to be reopened.

Parliament today paid homage to deceased MP, Hon Ngo Yetna Marinette . The Member of Parliament from the Sanaga Maritime in the Center region will be laid to rest tomorrow.

The first set of biometric passports produced under a new protocol since July 1st have been handed to some Cameroonians. They were handed by the Directorate General for National Security.