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12, December 2017

56 female lawmakers seek probe into sexual allegations against Trump ⁰

Dozens of Democratic female lawmakers have called on the House Oversight Committee to launch an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against US President Donald Trump.

Fifty-six members of the Democratic Women’s Working Group (DWWG) wrote a letter on Monday and demanded Oversight Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and ranking member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) open an investigation into the sexual allegations after at least a dozen women have “publicly accused the President of sexual misconduct.”

The group is set to hold a news conference at Capitol Hill on Tuesday to highlight the demand, a day after three of Trump’s accusers told their stories at a press conference and called on Congress to investigate the sexual misconduct allegations against the president, amid the snowballing harassment allegations convulsing the country.

The DWWG move comes at a time when women are coming forward with their “Me Too” accounts and telling how Trump sexually harassed them.

The sexual misconduct accusations have led to a wave of resignations and ousters of prominent figures who served in politics, the media, Hollywood, and other industries.

“In the time of ‘Me Too,’ women across the country are coming forward with their own harrowing stories of sexual harassment and assault. Members of Congress have also come under scrutiny and investigation, with some resigning, for improper sexual conduct. We cannot ignore the multitude of women who have come forward with accusations against Mr. Trump,” the DWWG members wrote.

The female lawmakers said Trump’s “own remarks appear to back up the allegations.”

“The President has boasted in public and in crude terms that he feels at liberty to perpetrate such conduct against women. Subsequently, Mr. Trump apologized and called it ‘locker room talk.’ He has since called all his accusers liars,” they wrote.

More than a dozen women have accused Trump of unwanted sexual advances, including forcible kissing or groping.

There is growing concern within the administration that the president may not escape renewed scrutiny at a time when a number of powerful men have been forced to step down because of sexual impropriety.

Weeks before the presidential election last November, The Washington Post released a tape in which Trump boasted about how he sexually assaulted women because he was powerful.

On Sunday, US Senator Bernie Sanders suggested Trump should consider stepping down over the allegations.

The remarks by Sanders, who was a candidate in last year’s presidential race, follow similar calls from a number of Democratic Senators, including Cory Booker and Jeff Merkley.

Trump ‘angered’ by Haley

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has said women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct “should be heard.”

“Women who accuse anyone should be heard. They should be heard and they should be dealt with,” Haley said on Monday when asked about allegations of misconduct leveled against the US president.

“And I think we heard from them prior to the election. And I think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up.”

Trump is reportedly furious with Haley over her statement. Haley’s comments angered Trump, two people familiar with the president told The Associated Press.

Haley, a former governor and one of the highest-ranking women in the Trump administration, said “the time has come” to bring “a conscience” to the way women are treated in the United States.

The comments were a surprising break from the assertion by the administration that the allegations are simply unfounded and that voters dismissed them when they elected Trump.

Source: Presstv

12, December 2017

SOBA:UK 2017 Annual Residential Convention: The Rock Stars gathered in Rugby ⁰

Another year and yet again another great Convention of pure style and class has been staged by SOBA:UK, unparalleled to any other Cameroonian event in the UK diaspora.

Within the Cameroonian Communities abroad, we are noticing some transformations in their life styles and preferences. As the matured wisdom sets in and push them towards making efforts to assist in the building of the brand name, so that they eventually can give back to members as well as to the institution that initiated their career goals in life. This is what SOBA:UK is all about and this was the message the SOBA:UK 2017 Annual Convention that was held in Rugby sent out to the world, indicating that SOBA:UK is a very unique, inclusive, non-ethnic, non-sectional association that brings together its membership and guests from across the UK, Ireland, USA, Europe and Africa.

What a novelty by the ex-students of Saint Joseph’s College, Sasse. What a smart move of getting support from Sobans and the whole community in the UK to be involved with this great SOBA:UK event, and it’s a family affair too. The Sasse Old Boys Rock Stars, their acronym SOBA:UK, residing in the United Kingdom and Ireland were appraising their responsibilities to the community in their theme of “Building a Stronger Community”.

The 2017 SOBA:UK Annual Convention in Rugby had a huge focus on the welfare of the SOBAN membership and how to restructure, assert and sustain the future of the associations. Headed by SOBA: UK’s “Frugal and Servant Leader”, Mr Ayuk Akoh-Arrey, SOBA:UK has joined the chains of reputable African associations that could be reckon with. In a good footing, the 2017 SOBA:UK Annual Residential Convention in Rugby has gone a long way towards internationising their Alma Mater.

We of the Cameroon Concord News Group observed that the SOBA:UK Convention was a huge success with a sellout crowd of circa 300 guests, including high-powered Sobans delegations from the Irish Republic, USA, Europe and Africa. The main sponsors namely Options International, Tamangwa Shipping and Sellam Quick who delivered excellent presentations of their companies were all accorded a VIP service. There was also strong support from the OPSA UK alumni represented by Dr Jacqui Lottin-Nfor and her team who presented the awards in the gala night for best supporter of SOBA:UK that was won by Ms Evelyne Aguen Dia, and the most dedicated Soban that was won by Soban Eko Ngwashi.

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Why Rugby?

There are reasons why Rugby hosted the three day’s event, from Friday 10th to Sunday 12th November:

The Dunchurch Park Hotel in Rugby, Warwickshire was chosen because of the exclusive availability of all facilities only to SOBA:UK and the convenience of the location in a county that is known for its history as the birth place of the world renowned poet William Shakespeare.

It all started on Friday evening with a welcome buffet dinner for younger Sobans and a management board meeting with a champagne toast. Sobans went to work on Saturday during the AGM delibrations which lasted for five hours, before the well attended main Gala night event. The Sunday BBQ and Falconry display events concluded the historic 2017 come together.

Cameroon Concord News understands that the feedback from many of the guests has been positive. We have seen feedback from Dr Sylvia Forchap-Likambi on a Facebook video which gave a big thumbs up for the event in her special Power Couple message.

The AGM deliberations where very frank, candid and cordial. To be sure, it offered a thoughtful key to some big decisions that were taken to strengthen the association’s structures and brand name for the future. The plans to continue to make the SOBA:UK financially strong are very much on track which in turn will bring about great benefits to members, as well as the alma mater. The 2017 SOBA:UK Convention was indeed to build a stronger community

The SOBA:UK president has already sent a thank you message to all guests, along with a collection of the most amazing pictures of the event as a class act to finalise the 2017 year with SOBA in the UK and shared with Cameroon Concord News.

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By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai
Cameroon Concord News Group

12, December 2017

Ambazonia Crisis: Fire razes down Mamfe Main Market ⁰

Flames razed down the Mamfe Main Market last night in an attack which the local residents say was staged by Francophone security forces stationed in the town.

We gathered that electronic shops, barber shops, groceries and butcheries were burned down in the inferno. Although the cause of the fire is not known, traders have added their voices to those who claim the fire was manmade and a deliberate action to stifle the Manyu economy.

Cameroon Concord News contacted the Mamfe police commissioner who hinted that authorities have opened an investigation to determine the cause of the fire in the market where traders lost property worth millions of Francs CFA.

An aide to the mayor of Mamfe told Camcordnews that “We cannot establish the exact value of property burnt down but the traders have lost goods worth millions.”

The fire which began around 12:00 midnight affected over 100 business persons. Some traders have reportedly blamed the security forces who have been deployed to the town center for not responding quickly to the emergency.

By Peter Ndip in Mamfe

11, December 2017

Maroua: Boko Haram kills 3 in Kerawa ⁰

The Nigerian Islamic sect, Boko Haram staged a suicide bombing today in Kerawa, Mayo Sava Division in the Far North region. Cameroon security sources say the attack resulted in a death s of three people. We gathered that the young suicide bomber infiltrated Muslim faithful who were leaving the mosque after the dawn prayer.

“The toll would be heavier if the suicide bomber was inside the mosque where Muslims gathered for prayers” said one of the witnesses. The blast actually collapsed a section of the Kerawa Mosque.

The Far North, affected by the violence at the peak of the insurgency in 2014-2015, had seen in recent weeks a gradual and fragile return to calm. But jihadist attacks have resumed in this border region of Nigeria and near the Mandara Mountains, where Boko Haram has several camps. Military sources in the region reported that a truck driver was kidnapped today December 11, 2017 in the locality of Dabanga.

By Sonne Peter

11, December 2017

Southern Cameroons Crisis: Nigeria denies any implication in tensions ⁰

Paul Biya, Cameroon’s president received on December 7, 2017 Lawan Abba Gashagar, high commissioner of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to Cameroon and special envoy of the Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, According to the Cameroonian presidency, Lawan Abba Gashagar delivered a message, from the Nigerian president, related to the two countries’ cooperation to Paul Biya.

The Nigerian diplomat denied any implication of his country in the climate of violence that has been reigning for over a year now in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon which forms the country’s English-speaking regions. He explained that Nigeria supports in no way the secessionists which demand the independence of those regions they baptized “Ambazonia”. Quite the opposite actually, the Nigerian government wishes a rapid return of peace in Cameroon and the preservation of its territorial integrity.

The Nigerian emissary also explained the presence of some secessionists’ leaders in Nigeria. Indeed, he said that the Cameroonians residing in Nigeria are actually favored by some clauses of the bilateral accord between the two parties which allow citizens of the two countries to stay in the other country for three months without a visa. This regulation compels the visitor to scrupulously respect the laws and regulations of the host country. The law also prohibits activities which can destabilize the visitor’s home country.

Source: Business in Cameroon

11, December 2017

How the Ambazonian Resistance is Rising and Forging a new Cameroon ⁰

The world is witnessing the birth of new powerful nation-the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. Yes, but not in the sense the French government and French Cameroun political elites had hoped. The people of Southern Cameroons have moved away from La Republique du Cameroun in the midst of a fierce war between Southern Cameroons armed militants and forces loyal to the regime in Yaoundé.

Instead of disempowering the people of Southern Cameroons and its sponsor, the Diaspora, the war declared by President Paul Biya has only augmented the strength and prestige of what is known as the “Interim Government,” a power bloc that includes Southern Cameroonian groups in Southern Africa, East and Western Europe, Asia, the Arab world, USA and Canada including the Scandinavian countries.

But the Biya war declaration is only one in a series of developments that significantly transformed the geopolitical structure in Southern Cameroons—from the banning of the Cameroon Anglophone Civil Society Consortium, which first opened the door to greater Anglophone unity, to shutting down of internet services in West Cameroon which led to the proliferation and empowerment of Ambazonians . These Biya regime actions have prompted a fundamental reconfiguration of the contemporary Cameroon order. Needless to mention the brutal killings of hundreds of Southern Cameroonians by the French Cameroun army.

Francophone political elites, grappling with the consequences of an eroding French Cameroun state system, poor governance, and excessive use of military force enabled Southern Cameroonians and its powerful Diaspora to build a new political and security architecture from the ground up. With the current onslaught on the people of Southern Cameroons by the Francophone dominated army, Southern Cameroons armed movements are slowly but surely creating a transnational, multi-ethnic, and cross-confessional political and security network that will make the Ambazonian resistance more muscular and effective than ever before.

The most important issue that the new French Cameroun administration after Biya will face will be the rise of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and given the deterioration of the regional security order and presidential elections in Cameroun, Nigeria including Equatorial Guinea not far away, the question is what to do about it. So far, policy discussions have focused on keeping Biya in power which may end up in a full scale civil war. Engaging the Interim Government of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and discuss the terms of separation is the wise thing to do by whosoever in running the think tank in Yaoundé.

By Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai

11, December 2017

Explosion near Times Square in New York ⁰

An explosion has rocked the Port Authority bus terminal near Times Square in New York. The explosion took place on Monday morning at the station, which is one of the busiest commuter hubs during rush hour, at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue in New York, according to officials.

“The NYPD is responding to reports of an explosion of unknown origin at 42nd Street and 8th Ave, #Manhattan. The A, C and E line are being evacuated at this time. Info is preliminary, more when available,” the New York police department wrote on their Twitter account.

Law enforcement sources said one suspected bomber – who had wires attached to him – was taken into custody. He was arrested after the device partially detonated, according to sources. His identity was not immediately known. Francisco Ramirez — a commuter — told CNN that he heard two explosions as he was exiting a bus about 7:45 a.m. ET.

“From what I saw it sounded like it came from the subway, but I’m just guessing,” he said. “It was two distinct explosions seconds from each other. As I was making my way toward the outside, I kept getting shoved by cops and there were cops at every entrance blocking and there was police and SWAT everywhere.”

“It was scary. It was just a lot of chaos but I didn’t see any injuries,” he added. President Donald Trump was briefed on the explosion, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. New York Mayor de Blasio has also been briefed on the incident.

Source: Presstv

11, December 2017

Ambazonia Crisis: 3 killed in Kumba ⁰

At least 3 people were killed in armed clashes between Ambazonian militants and Cameroon defense forces, according to community and security sources in Kumba.

Armed men claiming to represent the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), a movement classified as a terrorist organization by Yaoundé, attacked a gendarmerie post.

The clashes took place on the night on Saturday in Kumba the chief city in Meme Division. 3 attackers were killed and 5 soldiers were seriously injured.

Southern Cameroons is witnessing many scenes of clashes between defense forces and armed bands claiming secession. These secessionists are considered “terrorists” by Yaoundé.

By Rita Akana

11, December 2017

Yaounde: MP injured by flying debris in parliament amid anglophone crisis ⁰

A politician was hurt by an object thrown by another MP during chaotic scenes in Cameroon’s parliament in which vuvuzela horns were blown to drown out a budget debate, sources said on Saturday.

It comes against a backdrop of unrest in the country’s English-speaking regions which led to independence protests that turned fatal in October and the detention this week of US literary professor Patrice Nganang for criticising the government’s handling of the issue.

Government spokesman Issa Tchiroma said Nganang’s arrest on Wednesday in Douala followed the posting on Facebook of a death threat against the head of state.

He repeated the pledge of President Paul Biya, who has been in charge of the francophone nation since 1982, to rid the country of what he calls secessionists among the English-speaking minority, which has complained about discrimination.

Resentment among anglophones has fed a spiral of political demands and also a government crackdown, leading to calls for secession.

In Saturday’s incident, Hermine Patricia Ndam Njoya of the opposition Democratic Union of Cameroon “hurled into the air” parts of her desk to protest against the assembly speaker’s refusal to allow her party’s legislators to speak, the party’s communications officer Amadou Mongwat claimed.

Mongwat said the object landed on the head of a member of the ruling Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement, causing a head injury. It is not clear from video of the alleged incident where the object lands or what is thrown. Other reports have suggested a shoe was hurled.

The speaker ended the session with the announcement that the budget had been adopted without further discussion.

Last month four Cameroonian soldiers were killed by suspected separatists in the south-west of the country, while international monitors say at least 20 people have been killed since late September. The president of the senate has since promised to have a commission investigate the anglophone issue.

The detained writer Nganang, who has a home in New Jersey and has been teaching in the US since 2000, was said to be in good spirits and has met a lawyer, a colleague at New York’s Stony Brook University said.

Karin Deutsch Karlekar at advocacy group PEN America said: “Detaining an important independent voice like Patrice Nganang, who has used his writing to investigate the consequences of violence, is indicative of a movement by the government to silence all political criticism and dismantle the right to free expression.”

US professor Patrice Nganang, who has been detained in Cameroon after writing an article criticising the government’s handling of the anglophone crisis. Photograph: AP

Farhan Haq, a spokesman for the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said at a briefing on Thursday he hoped Nganang was safe but did not say whether the UN was aware of the detention or whether it would intervene. “We certainly hope and expect that this particular person will be found, and we’re hopeful that nothing untoward has happened,” he said.

Nganang has published 12 books, scholarly essays, novels and books of poetry.

Culled from The Guardian

11, December 2017

Trump slams media over fake news, calling reporters a ‘stain on America’ ⁰

US President Donald Trump has once again railed against the media blasting journalists and calling their work “a stain on America” after a string of errors in reporting on his presidency emerged over the past week.

“Very little discussion of all the purposely false and defamatory stories put out this week by the Fake News Media. They are out of control — correct reporting means nothing to them. Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed…a stain on America!” Trump tweeted Sunday.

The tweet came after some journalists made several reporting errors causing them to become targets of Trump and conservative media and commentators.

The errors by CNN and ABC have been widely covered in the media, including on CNN, which featured a Sunday segment on mistakes in journalism.

Trump referred to ABC News’s Brian Ross as a “fraudster” on Friday, a week after he reported that the president had directed his former national security adviser Michael Flynn to make contact with Russian officials during the campaign.

ABC later corrected the report to say the president directed Flynn to contact Russia “after” he was elected.

Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel has also became Trump’s most recent target after the president demanded Saturday that he apologize for tweeting a photo of an empty arena before a Trump rally in Florida that had been taken hours before the event started.

Weigel responded and apologized minutes after Trump tweeted that he had “put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived.”

Trump’s comments were his latest attack against the news media for the coverage he receives. During a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, in August, he called journalists “truly dishonest” and “sick people.”

Trump has repeatedly used the term “fake news” to cast doubt on critical media reports about his administration, often without providing any evidence to support his case.

As a candidate, Trump had pursued the same anti-media rhetoric threatening to “open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.”

Source: Presstv