Tag: Cameroon

  • Sweden meets Cameroon in the handball World Cup

    Sweden meets Cameroon in the handball World Cup

    Women's Handball WC20.30 Sweden–Cameroon (Per Kahl, Annika Wiel Hvannberg and Susanna Andrén) Hosts: Roger Burman and Andreas Andersson

  • Pirates leave the Danish ship and take crew members with them

    Creepy gorge The waters off the Gulf of Guinea have replaced Africa’s east coast as the world’s most dangerous pirate hotspot. Although there has been a sharp decrease in the number of attacks in recent years, ships are still at risk. Poverty in nearby countries such as Nigeria and Cameroon has led many to the…

  • Danish ship overrun by pirates

    Danish-owned tanker Monjasa Reformer has been attacked and potentially hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea. The ship, which belongs to the Danish oil trading company Monjasa, is currently approximately 100 kilometers off the south coast of Cameroon. The crew hides in a safe room, while the pirates still roam the ship. Communication breakdownCommunication…

  • I-League: NEROCA FC defeat Mumbai Kenkre 1-0

    I-League: NEROCA FC defeat Mumbai Kenkre 1-0

    Imphal (Manipur) [India]February 9 (ANI): NEROCA FC defeated Mumbai Kenkre FC 1-0 in the I-League here at the Khuman Lampak Stadium on Wednesday. A competition between teams trying to avoid relegation is generally a stingy affair. That was the case today, but NEROCA had the upper hand throughout, as evidenced by their 15 shots on…

  • Ohisalo: Cop15 result more than many dared to expect

    Ohisalo: Cop15 result more than many dared to expect

    “We are talking about a tipping point to halt the loss of biodiversity worldwide.” The countries of the world agreed at the conference to halt and reverse the loss of biodiversity by 2030, to protect at least 30 percent of all land and water areas by 2030, and to restore 30 percent of degraded land,…

  • Christiano!  Find your own party day!

    Christiano! Find your own party day!

    The supermarkets got an early Christmas by combining the festive period with the World Cup in football in 2022 – and taking advantage of the happy luck that Denmark’s main colors are the ones that Santa Claus himself wears the most. Supermarkets in Cameroon blame Coca-Cola for missing out on that bonanza. And it helped…

  • Right now: Serbia and Switzerland settle for round of 16 spot

    Right now: Serbia and Switzerland settle for round of 16 spot

    19.00-22.00 approx Soccer World Cup group stage20.00 Serbia-Switzerland (Christian Olsson and Johan Elmander)20.00 Cameroon-Brazil (Susanna Andrén) Program managers: Linn Nenzén and William Waldetoft TABLE for the final round:1) Brazil 6 points (+3)2) Switzerland 3 (+/-0)-–3) Cameroon 1 (-1)4) Serbia 1 (-2) CONDITIONS: Brazil already ready for the round of 16. A point tonight secures the…

  • World Cup 2022: Will the hosts of Qatar be …

    World Cup 2022: Will the hosts of Qatar be …

    There is one thing we can all be sure of: this World Cup will be like no other. And most of that boils down to the choice of Qatar, the first debutant hosts of the World Cup since Italy in 1934 and the organizers of the shortest tournament (just 29 days) since Argentina in 1978.…

  • 17 states elected to the UN Economic and Social Council for a three-year term

    UNITED NATIONS, June 10 (Xinhua) – Seventeen states were elected on Friday to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the coordinating body for the economic and social work of UN agencies and funds, for a three-year term. The states were elected by secret ballot with a two-thirds majority of the member states present…

  • 17 countries elected to the UN Economic and Social Council for a 3-year term

    17 countries elected to the UN Economic and Social Council for a 3-year term

    New York [US]June 11 (ANI / Xinhua): On Friday, seventeen states were elected to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the coordinating body for the economic and social work of UN agencies and funds, for a three-year term. The states were elected by secret ballot with a two-thirds majority of the member states…

  • More than 550 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported: UN

    More than 550 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been reported: UN

    The majority of reported cases have been sexual encounters between men, and these communities seek to inform their members of the risks and preventative actions that can be taken. “But we all need to work hard to combat stigma, which is not only wrong, it can also prevent people from seeking treatment, making it harder…

  • Reaction from South American coaches to the draw of the World Cup

    RIO DE JANEIRO, April 1 (Xinhua) – The following is the reaction of South American national team leaders to the draw of the FIFA World Cup 2022, which was held in Doha on Friday: TITE, BRAZIL MANAGER “It is neither the group of death nor of life, each group has a degree of difficulty. Portugal…

  • Mbappe hangs on when France beat South Africa

    Mbappe hangs on when France beat South Africa

    Kylian Mbappe struck twice when France crushed South Africa 5-0 on Tuesday night to register their second victory in the international break. Mbappe, who missed Friday night’s 2-1 victory over Ivory Coast due to an ear infection, made his debut in the 23rd minute at Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille. The Paris Saint-Germain striker screwed…

  • Xinhua World News Summary at 1530 GMT, November 24

    YAOUNDE – Unidentified gunmen killed three students and a teacher on Wednesday in an attack on a state school in Cameroon’s war-torn English-speaking region in the southwest, according to local authorities. The attackers stormed the government’s bilingual high school in the town of Ekondo Titi at 7.30am local time as students were studying, detonating an…

  • In 2021, Finland will be the third in the world digital quality of life index

    In 2021, Finland will be the third in the world digital quality of life index

    Overall, Finland has significantly improved its digital well-being compared to the DQL 2020 network, rising from 11th to 3rd place and eventually surpassing Sweden and Norway. The study shows that Finland has the second cheapest broadband connection in the world. Finns have to work 31 minutes to get the cheapest broadband package – that is…

  • Denmark ranked first in terms of digital quality of life

    Denmark ranked first in terms of digital quality of life

    Affordability and quality Immersion in the five index pillars Denmark ranked first in Internal Affordability and Electronic Infrastructure and also performed well in Electronic Government (6), Internet Quality (9) and Electronic Security (12). Looking at the sub-criteria, the Danes scored well for Mobile Affordability (1), Network Readiness (2) and Online Services (3). The country’s worst…

  • Friday’s papers: Underemployment, English-language education and the sponsorship criterion

    Friday’s papers: Underemployment, English-language education and the sponsorship criterion

    On Friday Helsingin Sanomat asks in itself a question that is dear to many readers of Yle News: why do so many highly educated foreigners in Finland not do work that matches their profession? The magazine speaks to a Cameroonian graduate who finally found an engineering job that matched her degree after years of cleaning…

  • The Foreign Chronicle

    The Foreign Chronicle

    Pretoria Thursday. For a couple of days then I changed planes in Lomé in Togo. It had been a sweaty flight from Bangui in the Central African Republic. The change in Lomé on to Addis Ababa was stressful, in 25 minutes I had rushed through the terminal and into the next plane. Once there at…

  • FACTS: Piracy plagues merchant ships in the Gulf of Guinea

    Read more here: * For years, Denmark has tried to overcome the pirate problem in the Gulf of Guinea, where between 30-40 Danish ships sail daily. Denmark transports goods worth almost ten billion kroner to the region. * On 13 January 2021, “Maersk Cardiff” was attempted to attack south of Nigeria. By the end of…

  • Cameroon in shock and grief after school attack

    Cameroon in shock and grief after school attack

    Cameroon is in shock and grief after nine children were killed and a dozen were injured in an attack on a school yesterday. For four years, the region has been plagued by a conflict between English-speaking separatists and government forces. The pictures are hair-raising. Empty wooden benches in the small classroom in the town of…

  • P3 News

    P3 News

    The Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos has been destroyed in a major fire. 27-year-old Christian Ojah from Cameroon had to leave all his belongings and run for his life late last night. The only thing he got with him was his mobile phone, he says. Now they are sitting along the…