Finance Minister Louis Paul Motaze told a cabinet meeting on 27 October 2026 that the government has set aside 600 billion FCFA to settle domestic debt in 2027, a figure that still needs presidential arbitration before the finance bill reaches Parliament.
Content creators called on subscribers to suspend use of the two operators for a day and switch to state-owned Camtel, citing mobile data prices and service quality. Some are also calling for the return of Nexttel, whose signal went off in 2023.
Foreign Minister Lejeune Mbella Mbella represented President Paul Biya at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, the government's first account of Cameroon's attendance confirms. The brief of 29 October 2026 recorded a mixed turnout of African heads of state at the opening.
Lieutenant-Colonel Parfait Ayissi Nanga returned to the stand at the Yaounde military court, where the defence and civil parties contested his account of how the journalist Martinez Zogo died. The court set the case for 16 and 17 November 2026.
The new MRC president signed a declaration on 28 October 2026 saying Cameroon is near collapse and calling on the African Union, the UN and Western partners to act together.
Maurice Kamto said he was deeply touched by a letter from MRC activists detained at Kondengui central prison in Yaounde, in which they thanked him for his years leading the party.
The UDC, Manidem and PCRN have criticised the three-month suspension of Issa Tchiroma's party, while the FSNC calls the decree a "non-event" and says it had already withdrawn from elections.
The minister of territorial administration has suspended the Front for the National Salvation of Cameroon for three months, a decision the party's allies call panic and its critics call a response to insurrection.
General Saly Mohamadou, chief of staff of the army, asked the outgoing US defence attaché for American support in training and equipping troops. The US officer said Washington would back cooperation on terms Cameroon sets.
Abdouraman Hamadou Babba called on opposition parties to unite and contest the coming legislative and municipal elections as a vote for or against President Paul Biya's government, after the FSNC was excluded from the ballot.