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Shakespeare's skull is likely missing from his grave, an archaeologist has concluded, confirming rumors which have swirled for years about grave-robbers and adding to the mystery surrounding the Bard's remains. Four hundred years after his death and burial at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England, researchers were allowed to scan the grave of England's greatest playwright with ground-penetrating radar. But in the area under the church floor where the Bard's skull was expected to be, they found signs of interference.

Denis Sassou Nguesso has been re-elected president of Congo-Brazzaville after the constitution was amended to allow him to seek a third term. He won 60% of the vote, against 15% for his nearest challenger, the interior minister announced. The opposition says the vote was marred by "massive fraud".  It says the communications blackout announced during the vote was designed to prevent observers from monitoring the election.

In Somalia, driving a truck is considered to be a man's job, but one woman from a village near Borama close to the border with Djibouti and Ethiopia, is not interested in what's traditional. Cadar Muumin took up truck driving when she felt the male drivers she employed treated her as inferior. She takes no nonsense from people who abuse her on the road, and she performs a vital service for everyone in her village.

 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