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Cameroon Launches National AI Strategy to Drive Innovation by 2040
I Africa
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July 10, 2025
Cameroon has launched its first National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (SNIA), aiming to become a regional AI leader by 2040. The plan, announced by Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Minette Libom Li Likeng at the second National...
Cameroon Launches National AI Strategy for Regional Tech Leadership
News Ghana
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July 9, 2025
Cameroon has unveiled its National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (SNIA), targeting regional AI leadership by 2040 through digital sovereignty and inclusive development. Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Minette Libom Li Likeng announced...
Cameroon Urged to Modernize Mineral Data to Unlock Mining Revenues
Business in Cameroon
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July 9, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - A recent assessment of sustainable mineral resource management in Cameroon reveals that the country's mining potential is largely underexploited. This study aimed to align Cameroon with the Africa Mining Vision. To reach...
Researchers inspired by palm vein tech develop invisible product ‘digital identity’
Biometric Update
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July 8, 2025
The sensing and pattern recognition technologies behind biometrics can also be applied to identifying and learning things about inanimate objects. As part of an ecosystem leveraging infrared technology and palm vein biometrics, a group of...
Cameroon unveils plan to modernize local digital govt services
Biometric Update
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July 8, 2025
The government of Cameroon has disclosed that it is working to update a Digital Master Plan for decentralized entities in the country as part of efforts to further embed digital tools into the country’s decentralization process. Decentralisation...
Cameroon imposes significant penalties on Telecom giants Orange and MTN
Africanews
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July 8, 2025
The Cameroonian telecommunications regulatory agency (ART) has imposed a fine of nearly 4 million euros on the local subsidiaries of multinational companies Orange and MTN for violations. The Cameroonian Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (ART)...
Cameroon Unveils Seven-Pillar AI Strategy to Become Africa’s Leading Hub by 2040
Cameroon Online
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July 8, 2025
• Cameroon launched its AI strategy to become Africa’s leading hub by 2040, with goals for jobs, training, and GDP growth. • It focuses on governance, infrastructure, local language models, edge computing, talent, and regional cooperation. • The...
Cameroon Now Equipped with Advanced Defensive, Offensive Intelligence Capabilities – Dr. Guy Gweth
Business in Cameroon
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July 8, 2025
(Business in Cameroon) - In preparation for establishing a National Center for Economic and Strategic Intelligence in Cameroon, agents from the General Directorate of External Research, one of the country's primary intelligence agencies, received...
Cameroon's next generation is ready to take on the country's technological challenges
Global Voices
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July 8, 2025
Children in the technology laboratory. Image from Cynthia Ebot Takang. Used with permission Across Cameroon, especially during summer holidays (end of July to beginning of September), a growing number of parents are enrolling their children in...
Cameroon holds forum on AI opportunities, challenges
Xinhua News Agency
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YAOUNDE, July 7 (Xinhua) -- A two-day forum opened in Cameroon on Monday to discuss the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) for the Central African country. According to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, which...
DY6 Metals more than doubles Cameroon holdings with 6 more licences
The Market Herald
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July 8, 2025
Join our daily newsletter At The Bell to receive exclusive market insights DY6 Metals (ASX:DY6) has this week more than doubled its land holdings in central Cameroon, to as much as 7,554 square kilometres in one move, after buying up another six...
West St. John graduate makes history with a $500 billion tech deal
L'Observateur
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July 8, 2025
Published 4:01 am Tuesday, July 8, 2025 Leal Alexander, a native of Edgard and graduate of West St. John High School Leal Alexander, a native of Edgard and graduate of West St. John High School, completed a $500 billion sale of his intellectual...
Inside Kondengui prison: ground zero of Cameroon’s war on dissent
The Guardian
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July 8, 2025
In the visitors’ area in the courtyard of Kondengui maximum security prison, French-dubbed Nollywood films play on a TV as inmates and their guests hug each other and laugh. The green, red and yellow flag of Cameroon flutters above. The happy...
NGO launches ‘Kemi’ AI chatbot to tackle online gender-based violence
The Cable
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July 10, 2025
The Brain Builders Youth Development Initiative (BBYDI), a Nigerian youth-led non-governmental organisation, has launched an artificial intelligence-powered WhatsApp chatbot designed to support survivors of technology-facilitated gender-based...
Scientists catalogue data vital to improved biodiversity, forestry
University World News
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CAMEROON Scientists of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in south-west London in the United Kingdom, and those in Cameroon’s Institute of Agricultural Research for Development (IRAD) National Herbarium and the University of Yaoundé I have been...
Rio Ferdinand warns Man United left with one choice over Bryan Mbeumo transfer pursuit
The Independent
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July 10, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Four Dead, Families Displaced as Flood Ravages Cameroon’s Adamawa Region
HumAngle
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July 7, 2025
Authorities in the Adamawa Region of Cameroon have called for vigilance and better urban planning to avoid future disasters following the death of four persons and the displacement of families after heavy torrential rains and floods. Local sources...
"I spoke to him about a week ago" - Bryan Mbuemo's coach claims star is 'frustrated' over Manchester United transfer delay
Sportskeeda
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July 10, 2025
Cameroon assistant coach Ashu Cyprian Besong has claimed that Manchester United target Bryan Mbeumo is frustrated due to the recent transfer delay. He also stated that Brentford are aware of Mbeumo's preference to join the Red Devils, as the...
ASX stumbles as US threatens 35pc tariff on Canada
Cairns Post
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July 11, 2025
ASX pulls back after a strong open 35% US tariff on Canadian goods finally shakes markets Resources the only bright spot, up 2.04pc Trump threatens 35% tariff on Canada Despite reversing a digital revenue tax on US companies, Canada’s trade...
Lunch Wrap: Resources the only bright spot as ASX stumbles
Stockhead
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July 11, 2025
The threat of a 35% tariff on Canadian goods has iced out much of the ASX at lunch on Friday. Pic: Getty Images ASX pulls back after a strong open 35% US tariff on Canadian goods finally shakes markets Resources the only bright spot, up 2.04pc...