Author: Chris Anu

Yaounde, Cameroon – So, the day has finally come, hasn’t it, Mr. Paul Biya? The day you convinced yourself would never arrive. The day you staved off with rigged elections, iron-fisted decrees, disappearing opponents, and the quiet, clinical efficiency of prisons that swallowed men alive. You lie in Geneva now, 93 years old, in a hospital bed that the people of Cameroon are paying for, as they have paid for everything that sustained you — while your family keeps vigil and the world waits, 63 days and counting. The country you claimed to love so deeply that you couldn’t let…

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Pakistan on Thursdayannounced its implementation of the Foreign Media Facilitation Guidelines 2026 (the Guidelines), imposing strict regulatory limits on foreign journalists and local nationals working for international media outlets. The six-page document mandates that all international media operations and their personnel register directly with the External Publicity Wing of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.

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Sriram Kakarala is Chief Product Officer at Scalefusion, specialising in unified endpoint management, identity, security and zero-trust access. He has more than a decade of experience developing mobile software, including BYOD solutions, custom Android operating systems and communications platforms, with a career spanning early-stage start-ups and multinational technology companies worldwide.

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Riverbeds reduced to tiny streams, asphalt melting like butter, dried-up fields — these are currently the images of drought in Central and Southeastern Europe. The record-breaking lack of rainfall in recent months and this summer’s heatwaves have caused severe damage to the region’s economy and infrastructure. 

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60 Days Missing, No Public Appearance, No Vice President: Is Cameroon Entering Its Most Dangerous Succession Crisis? YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — Sixty days have passed since President Paul Biya left Cameroon on what officials initially described as a brief private stay in Europe. Since then, the world’s longest-serving non-monarch leader has neither returned home nor appeared publicly before his people. He has delivered no speech, answered no questions, and offered no direct reassurance to a nation increasingly consumed by uncertainty over who is actually governing it. For a president who has ruled Cameroon since 1982, prolonged absences abroad are not…

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There are legal victories that settle disputes. Then there are legal victories that become national lessons. Rebecca Enonchong’s courtroom triumph over the Cameroon Debt Recovery Corporation (SRC) belongs firmly in the second category. To understand why this case has resonated far beyond a simple debt dispute, one must first understand what the SRC represents. The Cameroon Debt Recovery Corporation is not an ordinary debt collection agency. It is a state-owned institution established to recover non-performing debts inherited by the State from failed banks and other public financial obligations. Armed with significant legal enforcement powers, the SRC occupies a unique place…

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