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2010 Mount Cameroon Race: Runners Will No Longer Go Beyond Hut 2 --- General Public Confused

The Mount Cameroon Race of Hope will from this year be run from the Molyko stadium down to the Mile 17 Motor Park, then up the mountain to Hut 2 and back to the Molyko stadium in Buea. The president of the National Athletic Federation in Cameroon, Jacques Sébastien Mbous has ..................................................

Cameroon MTN Elite One Champions, Tiko United, Get Financial Support

Supporters of Cameroon’s 2008-2009 MTN Elite One football champions, Tiko United, a.k.a The Samba Boys, have generated over FCFA 14.6 million to support the team. This amount was realised in cash during a meeting the governor for the South West Region, Cameroon convened in Tiko on .................

WORLD CUP AND NATIONS CUP 2010: QUALIFICATION STILL POSSIBLE FOR CAMEROON

The Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, bottom of their group with no goal and a solitary point after two games, could top the group with two wins in their upcoming head-to-head clashes with the Azingo Nationale of Gabon. Cameroon's 0-0 stalemate with Morocco at home in Yaounde on Day 2 of .......................

The Final People Of Cameroon were Waiting For: Manchester United of England Versus Barcelona of Spain.

Some Cameroon football fans went celebrating in the Streets of Buea on Wednesday, May 6th 2009 after FC Barcelona qualified to play the final of the UEFA Champions League against the mighty Manchester United. Fans that had already shrunk themselves like snails into their shells almost got their lungs burst out with joy when an equaliser came in from FC Barcelona in the 3rd minute of injury time

TIKO UNITED ARE CHAMPIONS OF CAMEROON

In the year marking the 50th anniversary since the founding of Fecafoot in 1959, the Cameroon elite football championship will not go down to the wire because Tiko United have been crowned champions for 2009 with three games left! Tiko United thus make history by becoming the first team from Anglophone Cameroon to win the title, knocking Cotonsport Garoua off their perch in the process..............................................

Otto Pfister Under Pressure: Cameroonians Want Him Scaked

Many Cameroon football fans have added his voices to that of former Cameroon football striker, Roger Miller, demanding the sacking of the national team head coach, German born Otto Pfister. This popular cry follows a painful 1-0 defeat the Indormitable Lions suffered against the Sparrow Hawks of Togo on Saturday 28 March 2009 at Ohene Djan Stadium, Accra, Ghana. The Lions were playing one of their................................

Draw For Under-20 World Cup leaves Africa Hopeful

The draw has been made in Egypt for the 17th edition of the U-20 World Cup to be held from 24 September to 16 October 2009. African teams have been given tough but not insurmountable opposition. With only the hosts certain to qualify in FIFA events, the current holders, Argentina, failed to make it through the South American qualifying section. This gives.....................................................

Cameroon lose their Opening Match in the World Cup Qualifying Campaign, and now have a Mountain to Climb

Make that three wins for Togo against Cameroon in eighteen head-to-head encounters. It is the first time the Hawks have beaten the Indomitable Lions in a World Cup qualifier. An intriguing subplot was that the Cameroon coach, Otto Pfister, had been the Togo coach in the last World Cup when the Hawks became the first team to threaten not to play in a World Cup match. Today’s match had been billed in some ............................................................................

PICTURES OF BUEA MOUNTAIN RACE

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Buea Prepares for The 2009 Mount Cameroon Race of Hope

Mount Cameroon Race athletes are already in the Regional Capital of South West, Buea, to register and get used to the atmosphere. Some are training on the mountain so as to get used to the terrain before the race itself. Fako News Centre reporter, Moki S. Mokondo, followed some of the athletes up the Buea mountain recently to watch them train, and now gives a picture of what it takes to race on Mount Cameroon, a race he considers the cruellest African ‘Foot Race’.

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