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22, June 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Biya regime launches emergency humanitarian plan 0
The PM on June 20, 2018 gave details on the strategy and how the money will be raised to restore a conducive environment for the socio-economic development of the affected areas. People and structures affected in one way or the other by the close to two-year socio-political crisis raging on in the North West and […]
22, June 2018
Government Refugee aid inflames Southern Cameroonians 0
The Cameroon government announcement on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, to bring some relief to Southern Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria and those internally displaced across the country has instead provoked anger among Southern Cameroonians who hold that there can never be anything good from the Yaoundé government that has been maiming and killing its own people. […]
22, June 2018
Teenager Mbappe sends France through to last 16 as Peru knocked out 0
France beat Peru 1-0 with a goal from Kylian Mbappe on Thursday to book their place in the last 16 of the World Cup and crush the South Americans’ hopes of progressing in their first appearance at the tournament for 36 years. Mbappe’s 34th minute goal took him past David Trezeguet’s record (20) as France’s […]
22, June 2018
EU’s tit-for-tat tariffs on US goods come into force 0
The European Union slapped revenge tariffs on iconic US products including bourbon, jeans and motorcycles on Friday in its opening salvo in a trade war with President Donald Trump. The tariffs, which took effect at midnight (2200 GMT Thursday) according to the EU’s official journal, will further fuel jitters on world stock markets that are […]
22, June 2018
Exposed: Médecins Sans Frontières workers in Africa used ‘very young’ prostitutes 0
Some senior staff working for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Africa have allegedly used “very young” local prostitutes, the BBC reported on Thursday, citing former staff members of the renowned charity. The not-for-profit group said it took the allegations seriously – which according to the BBC involved logistical staff, and not doctors or nurses – […]
21, June 2018
Hundreds stranded in Southern Cameroons, as Ambazonian fighters block roads 0
Hundreds of Cameroonians have been stranded in Kumba since Saturday (June 16) because of road blocks erected by secessionists, on the main road to the troubled Southwest region’s capital city, Buea. The Kumba – Buea axis is a major trading route for cocoa from Kumba to the Buea hub. It is also a route frequented […]
21, June 2018
Refugees trying to enter EU illegally with World Cup Fan IDs 0
Authorities in Finland and Belarus, which share border with 2018 World Cup host Russia, say refugees are using Fan IDs issued for visits to the country during the tournament to try to enter the European Union. Andrey Sytenkov, an investigator with Belarus’s State Border Committee, said Wednesday that a small number of foreigners had been […]
21, June 2018
Amnesty International Finds Trouble Brewing in Cameroon 0
In a new 37 page report, the rights watchdog Amnesty International has documented “unlawful killings, destruction of private property, arbitrary arrests and torture” in two restive regions in Cameroon tied to a power struggle pitting French against English-speaking Cameroonians. In the Amnesty report titled, “A turn for the worse: Violence and human rights violations in […]
21, June 2018
Yaounde says Ambazonian fighters have killed 84 troops since Sept. 2017 0
Armed separatists in English-speaking regions of Cameroon have killed over 80 soldiers and police since their insurgency began in September last year, the government said in a report on Wednesday that suggests the conflict is intensifying. What began in late 2016 as a peaceful movement calling for greater representation of the mostly French-speaking country’s Anglophone […]
22, June 2018
UN urges US to find alternatives to detaining child migrants 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
The UN human rights office has urged the Trump administration to find alternatives to its present immigration policies and stop detaining migrant children. “While we acknowledge the US government’s decision not to continue separating children from their parents, we understand that the practice now will be to detain the children with their parents,” UN human […]