Cameroon has put new oil blocks up for licensing while it works to lift its suspension from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. The government has not published the blocks or the terms.
The senator for the North-West said he has made contact with separatist figures in the Anglophone regions, an initiative he described as a search for dialogue after a decade of conflict.
Célestin Tawamba, president of Gecam, has written to Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute seeking arbitration in a land dispute with Crescence Baboke, wife of the deputy director of the civil cabinet, over a parcel in Mfandena.
Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa has barred pupils in Cameroon's nursery and primary cycles from using generative artificial intelligence for schoolwork, in a directive dated 14 October 2026.
The campaign runs from 14 to 18 October 2026 across Cameroon, targeting children against measles and rubella after health authorities reported 9,568 cases and 18 deaths.
Lawyers in Cameroon's two Anglophone regions marched in 2016 against the use of French in common law courts. Ten years on, the government says it has responded, while the lawyers' original demands remain only partly implemented.
Finance Minister Louis Paul Motaze met Vera Songwe, founder of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility, on the sidelines of the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok.
Ibrahim Talba Malla has asked contracting authorities and tender commissions to include women, young people and people with disabilities in sufficient numbers, and to report statistics on their representation.
The economy ministry said the World Bank board approved 21 projects worth $5.01bn, while signed agreements cover 18 active projects worth $4.129bn. The ministry did not publish the project list or explain the roughly $881m difference.
The fisheries ministry cut Congelcam's frozen fish import quota from 200,000 tonnes in 2025 to 100,000 tonnes in 2026. The company says the cut threatens supply before the end of year holidays.