Paul Njie

1 week ago | aol.com | Paul Njie |Natasha Booty

A training camp for the Senegalese women's basketball team in the US has been scrapped, with the West African nation's prime minister saying he cancelled it because some of the squad were denied US visas. Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said the team would now train in Senegal's capital, Dakar, "in a sovereign and conducive setting". It comes amid reports that the US plans to impose fresh travel restrictions on 25 more African countries, including Senegal.

2 weeks ago | aol.com | Paul Njie |Natasha Booty

Police have ended their two-day stakeout of an apartment block in which Cameroon's main opposition leader Maurice Kamto had been staying after he returned from France, where he had held a political rally that inflamed the ruling CPDM party. On Sunday law enforcement officers blocked the 71-year-old from leaving the building in the main city of Douala for a meeting with members of his Cameroon Renaissance Movement (CRM) party.

2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Paul Njie |Natasha Booty

Police surround home of presidential hopeful in CameroonPaul Njie & Natasha BootyReporting fromDouala & LondonAFP via Getty ImagesPresidential hopeful Maurice Kamto, seen here in 2020, is a former law professorCameroon's main opposition leader Maurice Kamto says police have surrounded his home for the past two days since he returned from France, where he had held a political rally that inflamed the ruling CPDM party.

2 weeks ago | bbc.com | Paul Njie |Damian Zane

Rwanda pulls out of regional bloc over DR Congo rowPaul Njie & Damian ZaneAFP via Getty ImagesRwanda is accused of backing the M23 rebel group, which controls Goma and other parts of eastern DR CongoRwanda has said it is pulling out of a central African regional bloc after a diplomatic row over its involvement in the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

1 month ago | bbc.com | Wedaeli Chibelushi |Paul Njie

Art curator Koyo Kouoh dies at height of careerWedaeli Chibelushi & Paul NjieBBC News, London & YaoundéPMC/Getty ImagesKoyo Kouoh has been described as "magnificently intelligent, endlessly energetic and formidably elegant"Koyo Kouoh, one of the art world's leading figures and a fierce advocate of African creatives, has died aged 57. A Cameroon-born curator, Kouoh had been at the height of her career.