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18, May 2018
Central African Republic: UN peacekeeper killed, 8 injured in attack 0
A peacekeeper was killed and eight others were injured Thursday during an attack on a convoy in the Central African Republic, the UN’s MINUSCA force and the Mauritanian army said. The ambush took place as a contingent of Mauritanian peacekeepers were escorting a logistical convoy between the towns of Kongbo and Alindao in the southern […]
18, May 2018
Long-Shot Candidate Will Challenge Cameroon’s President Biya 0
It has been 18 years since Akere Muna founded the Cameroon chapter of Transparency International, the anti-corruption watchdog agency. And although the organization has scored some successes, the overall picture is not improving. In 2017, Cameroon slipped to 153rd out of 180 countries in TI’s annual corruption perception index, a slight drop from their ranking […]
18, May 2018
Southern Cameroons War: Victory is not assured for Biya, but trends are also not moving in favor of the IG 0
It has become commonplace in Yaoundé to say that there is no military solution to the conflict in Southern Cameroons. That claim invoked by many Cameroon government officials and Francophone political elites is simply to justify to the international community that the 85 year Paul Biya is interested in dialogue and preventing any international intervention […]
17, May 2018
Secession: New Catalan leader shuns Spanish constitution 0
Quim Torra, Catalonia’s new separatist leader, was sworn in Thursday during a brief ceremony without central government representatives in which he avoided promising to obey the constitution and pledged instead to follow “the will of the Catalan people”. The ceremony marks the end of nearly seven months of political limbo in the northeastern Spanish region, […]
17, May 2018
Officials meet to examine international risks of Ebola in Congo 0
Congolese and UN officials were racing to prevent a runaway Ebola outbreak in Congo on Thursday, working out the logistics of keeping newly arrived vaccines well below freezing in a steamy region on the equator with unreliable power. World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman Christian Lindmeier said the UN body would convene an Emergency Committee meeting […]
17, May 2018
Will thousands more die to show that Biya can no longer rule over Cameroon? 0
The revelation is as sobering as it is shocking-the beheading of Southern Cameroons women and children by army soldiers deployed to the region by President Paul Biya. Every Southern Cameroonian family has had firsthand experience with violence. The Manyus, Bangwas, Mettas, Balis, Nso, Orokos, Bafaws, Bakweri, Bakossi, Aghen and others are sharing similar insights, shaped […]
17, May 2018
Nigeria, Cameroon forces kill 15 Boko Haram insurgents 0
Nigerian and Cameroon forces killed 15 Boko Haram insurgents during gun battles to clear the Lake Chad region of the violent group, officials said on Thursday. A statement by Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, spokesman of the counter-insurgency operation in the country’s troubled northeast, said a joint operation of Nigerian and Cameroonian forces in the southern Lake […]
17, May 2018
Australia slams Cameroon human rights as athletes told ‘go home’ 0
Australia has joined the US, Britain and dozens of other nations in criticising Cameroon’s human rights record, as up to a dozen of the West African country’s Commonwealth Games athletes have not returned home. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton warned athletes overstaying their Games’ visas will be found and deported, although some have reportedly received […]
17, May 2018
Southern Cameroons crisis raised in U.K. parliament 0
Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis has been raised in the House of Commons – the United Kingdom’s lower house of Parliament with a request from the government as to what it is doing over the situation. The issue was raised by MP Jessica Morden (Labour Party member for Newport East) who wanted answers over the security crisis […]
18, May 2018
New book by Rev Babila Fochang to be launched in Yaounde 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Religion
Rev Babila Fochang will be signing copies of his latest books Daily Presence Volume 3, 4 and 5 written about faith and belief in the 21st century. The hardcover editions will be made public on Saturday the 26th of May 2018 at the Sunday School Hall, Presbyterian Church Nsimeyong in Yaoundé at 4:30 pm. The […]