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8, January 2019
Trump attacks the US news media, calling them ‘crazed lunatics’ 0
US President Donald Trump has launched a new attack on mainstream American news organizations, calling the press “crazed lunatics,” and again used the term “enemy of the people” and “fake news” to degrade journalists. “With all of the success that our Country is having, including the just released jobs numbers which are off the charts, […]
7, January 2019
Cameroon army kills 2 Ambazonia commanders in Manyu County 0
Cameroon army said on Sunday it had killed two armed separatist commanders in Southwest, one of the war-torn English-speaking regions of the country. “The ‘general Obi’, whose group terrorized the populations of the localities of Mamfe, Okoyong, Bachuo Ntai, Bachuo Akaegbe, and Nchemba was neutralized early morning of January 6, 2019,” the army said in […]
7, January 2019
More confusion in Gabon, but negotiations underway 0
There is still confusion in the Gabonese capital, Libreville, after some junior military officials announced very early on Monday that they had overthrown President Ali Bongo who is currently receiving treatment in the Moroccan capital, Rabat. A source close to the Gabonese military has just revealed that power supply has been cut off in strategic […]
7, January 2019
Gabon says Libreville calm after military coup attempt 0
The government in Gabon says calm has returned to the capital Libreville hours after a group of military officers launched a coup attempt in the absence of ailing President Ali Bongo. Government spokesman Guy-Bertrand Mapangou told AFP on Monday that most of the army rebels, who had earlier in the day seized the national radio station […]
7, January 2019
Malaysia: King abdicates after two years on the throne 0
Malaysia’s king abdicated on Sunday in a historic first for the country that ended weeks of speculation about his future after he took medical leave and reportedly married a Russian ex-beauty queen. Sultan Muhammad V’s decision marks the first time a king has stepped aside during his five-year term in Muslim-majority Malaysia. The national palace […]
7, January 2019
Gabon officers ‘oust President Ali Bongo’ 0
Junior officers say they have seized power in oil-rich Gabon, where the ailing leader’s family has ruled for 50 years. Soldiers in the west African country say they launched a coup “to restore democracy”. They took control of the national radio station at 04:30 local time (03:30 GMT) to read a short statement announcing a […]
6, January 2019
A Picture speaks 1000 words: One, United and Indivisible Cameroon Hoax 0
Look at Ahidjo’s body language on Jan 1, 1960; the day French Cameroun was granted independence and you can see the master-servant relationship between Francophones and France. From Jan. 1 1960 to February 11, 1961, Southern Cameroons was then a self-governing British UN-mandated territory with all the trappings of a nation-state, including its own internationally […]
6, January 2019
Trial of Ambazonian Leader: Interim Gov’t’s lawyer Falana drags La Republique to African Commission 0
Nigeria’s foremost human rights lawyer Femi Falana SAN has dragged the government of Cameroon to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia over the impending trial of 47 asylum seekers and naturalised Nigerians. The lawyer wants the commission’s urgent intervention to end “the ongoing human rights violations of the applicants […]
6, January 2019
Bayern Munich hand Ribery ‘heavy fine’ for angry Tweetstorm 0
Bayern Munich on Sunday said it will impose “a heavy fine” on Franck Ribery over an obscenity-laced outburst on social media, after the French striker became embroiled in controversy for eating a gold-coated steak. The punishment comes after Ribery lashed out at critics in a string of angry posts on Twitter and Instagram on Saturday. […]
8, January 2019
Zimbabwe teachers to strike over pay as currency crisis deepens 0
by soter • Education, Headline News, Life
Zimbabwean teachers will strike from Tuesday to press for US dollar salaries as talks with the government failed to bring a breakthrough, a union says, adding pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to contain a runaway currency crisis. Cash shortages have plunged Zimbabwe’s financial system into disarray, threatening social unrest and undermining Mnangagwa’s efforts to win […]