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Cameroon: The right to love and be loved

Paul Martial — 2024-08-14T09:08:26Z

Once again, the issue of decriminalizing homosexuality is being discussed in Cameroon with a position that is unexpected to say the least. On June 30, the young 26-year-old rapper King Nasty declared his love for Brazilian model Layyons Valença on the social network X (formerly Twitter) with a photo of the two lovers kissing passionately. This tweet has significant repercussions in Cameroon.

- IV595 - August 2024 / LGBT, Cameroon

Is Wagner facing a new challenge in Africa?

Paul Martial — 2023-07-07T11:05:32Z

The failed power grab by the head of the Wagner group, Evgeny Prigozhin, will have repercussions in Africa, even if the Russian authorities have spared no effort to mitigate the effects and reassure their African partners.

- IV582 - July 2023 / Russia, Africa, Mali, Libya, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon

Social struggles and the birth of a new consciousness

Jean Nanga — 2017-09-07T11:36:08Z

The Yaoundé Summit of Central African heads of state – Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic and Chad – was held during the second half of 2016, a fairly volatile period in the sub-region. Alongside the Central African Republic, where the violence which began in 2013 has sporadically re-emerged; Equatorial Guinea where, in order to develop his “Abayak holding” and his “shares in all the economic sector” the autocrat Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (in power since 1979 when he ousted his uncle, the previous president), had himself re-elected in April with 97% of the vote with his repressive apparatus dissuading any popular mobilisation; and the Republic of the Congo, where opposition to the regime has generated a confused and murderous military situation which began in Brazzaville and has since spread to the neighbouring department of Pool; the three other countries of the sub-region entered 2017 in an atmosphere of popular mobilisation.

- IV512 - September 2017 / Africa, Equatorial Guinea , Congo, Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon, Cameroon