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A road accident along the Mbanga highway on Saturday claimed 15 lives.  Officials of the Ministry of Transport say a commercial bus belonging to Menoua travel agency and a truck coming from Douala collided at Djongo – some few kilometers from Njombe killing 15 and injuring 20 others. 

Pope Francis urged the world in his Easter message on Sunday to use the "weapons of love" to combat the evil of "blind and brutal violence," following the attacks in Brussels. After a week of somber religious events commemorating Jesus' death, Francis said an Easter Sunday Mass under tight security for tens of thousands of people in a sun-drenched St. Peter's Square.

A small plane with four people on board crashed to the ground at a western Japanese airport on Saturday, leaving all four dead, an official and local media said. Television footage showed the front and back of the fuselage as severely damaged, with the wing tips broken, and the crashed aircraft near a runway at Yao airport in Osaka.

Cameroon has joined 164 countries to have granted Taiwan landing visa treatment for stays of up to 30 days, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

The girl told security forces she was among the girls kidnapped in 2014 from their school in Nigeria by terror group Boko Haram A suspected suicide bomber intercepted before she could blow herself up claimed to be one of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by terrorists in 2014, military and local government sources said.

Paris terror attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam The captured Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam was shown pictures by Belgian interrogators last Saturday of the brothers who later carried out the Brussels suicide bombings, it emerged on Friday. He denied all knowledge of them and was not pushed to say more.

Nigeria has indicted more than 300 local and foreign companies and individuals, including senior military officers, over an arms scandal. They are accused of defrauding the country of $241m in fake contracts, a government statement says. President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a probe last year after funds meant to buy weapons to fight Boko Haram militants were allegedly diverted.

Three people were arrested in Brussels this morning in a series of raids related to an arrest in a Paris suburb Thursday night, the Belgian federal prosecutor said today.  Authorities made the arrests in the areas of Saint Gilles, Rue de Belgrade and Avenue Rogier, the prosecutor said. 

The first appeal hearing in the trial of Marafa Hamidou Yaya, former Secretary General at the Presidency, Yves Michel Fotso, former General Manager of the defunct national carrier, Cameroon Airlines, Camair, and several others, held at the Supreme Court in Yaounde on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Marafa and Fotso were alongside others each sentenced to 25 years imprisonment on September 12, 2012, for embezzlement of about 21 Billion FCFA meant for the purchase of a presidential aircraft, the Bbjet 2.

Kuwaiti legislator Saud Al-Heraiji, currently heading a parliamentary delegation on a visit to the Cameroon, lauded humanitarian role played by the Saudi charitable center in the capital Yaounde. Al-Heriaji, head of the visiting Kuwaiti parliamentary friendship group, was speaking during a visit to the center, named the Center of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques — the late King Fahad Bin Abdulaziz. He lauded the charitable aid provided by the center to Muslims and non-Muslims.

 Fears are growing for an Indian priest believed to have been kidnapped by Isis after rumours circulated online suggesting he may be crucified on Good Friday. Tom Uzhunnalil is believed to have been taken from a retirement home in Yemen during an attack by Islamic extremists on 4 March. The group shot 16 people - including four nuns - during the incident at the home in Aden, which is run by missionaries, the International Business Times India said.

Ivorian musicians have collaborated to release a song saying they are "not afraid" after Islamist militants killed 19 people on a beach. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said it was behind the attack earlier this month.   The song"Meme Pas Peur", meaning not a bit afraid, was filmed on Grand Bassam beach, where the gunmen opened fire. 

 It was a surprising scene at the conference room of the National Ports Authority in Bonanjo, Douala, Tuesday March 22. Many had come for a board meeting not having a clue that Etoudi Oyono has been reinstated into his position as GM, several months after he went missing, allegedly due to his failing health. Stakeholders of the port saw Oyono, hitherto sacked, sitting as chair of the gathering instead of the interim, Charles Mokoko Njoh, who was appointed in his absence .

Hundreds of Cameroonian girls and boys trapped in a Kuwait Government shelter have written two separate letters to President Paul Biya and the Minister Delegate in the Ministry External Relations, in Charge of Relations with the Islamic world, requesting for emergency assistance to enable them return home to their families. The letters emerged in online forums following an ongoing five day visit to Cameroon of Kuwait members of parliament. The visit is expected to end today. In the letter to president Biya dated since November 13, 2015, the victims say they were tricked by agents of Kuwait hiring agencies.

In January 2016, the digitisation of the Guichet unique du commerce extérieur (GUCE – the one-stop shop for external trade) of Cameroon enabled the State to raise and secure over FCfa 300 billion.  These are in fact the first results of the GUCE dematerialisation project, which aim is to gradually implement a digital GUCE based on the complete digitisation of customs procedures. A system which has come to replace the physical GUCE, which gathered in the same location all players of the chain, whether public or private. According to Isidore Biyiha, Managing Director of GUCE, to this day 25 procedures have already been digitised out of 38. “The digitisation of procedures is at the same time a significant time-saving operation and helped secure the State’s income… What took a week to process can now be done in 5 minutes”. Following this, we learned from Abdoullahi Faouzi, Head of Operations at GUCE, that the time spent by the goods at GUCE has been significantly reduced.

Camair Co will now have to share the domestic flights market in Cameroon with Fly Caminter.  The new airline Fly Caminter will launch its aircraft in the Cameroonian sky on March 27,, to exclusively serve domestic routes.  Starting from the launch of its operations, Fly Caminter, company of which a unnamed Cameroonian businessman owns 51%, will offer services to Yaoundé, Douala, Garoua and Maroua. This new airline, we learned, has the technical support of the French group Regourd Aviation.  Before Fly Caminter, at least two other Cameroonian companies tried to operate in the air transport, with little success. These are Nacam, launched by Jean Marie Assene Nkou, or Elysean Airlines, launched by a Cameroonian academic named Oben

President Jacob Zuma told members of the ANC's national executive committee at the weekend that if they wanted him to step down they should tell him. "He told us we should tell him directly if we wanted him to step down, rather than to stab him in the back," an NEC member reportedly told the publication. According to two more NEC members, Zuma had allegedly told those at the meeting that he was aware that there were members in the party's top structure who wanted him out.

A young man in a hat caught on CCTV pushing a luggage trolley at Belgium's Zaventem airport alongside two others who, investigators said, had later blown themselves up in the terminal Two brothers carried out suicide bombings at Brussels airport and on the metro on Tuesday, the federal prosecutor confirmed on Wednesday, adding that airport bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui had left a will on a computer that was found. His brother Khalid blew himself up on a carriage of the Brussels metro at Maelbeek station, Frederic Van Leeuw told a news conference. Two other men captured on CCTV at the airport with Ibrahim had yet to be identified, he said.