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5, May 2018
Boko Haram bombers hit Maiduguri, houses set on fire in Cameroon 0
At least four Boko Haram suicide bombers struck a village near Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno on Thursday night. The bomb attacks on Mairanti village occurred at about 10 p.m. on Thursday, according to local television station Channels TV. Authorities said no one else except the bombers was hurt, but advised […]
5, May 2018
Earthquake in South Africa mine leaves 7 dead 0
An earthquake that hit a South African gold mine claimed a total of seven lives, its owner said Saturday, after rescue operations were completed at the site outside Johannesburg. The epicenter of the 2.2-magnitude quake was close to where the miners were working on Thursday, and 13 employees were trapped about three kilometers (two miles) […]
5, May 2018
Beijing blasts Macron accusations of Chinese ‘hegemony’ 0
China has denounced as “groundless accusations” French President Emmanuel Macron’s warning against what he called the dominance of the East Asian country in the Indo-Pacific region. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying hit back at the French president’s comment and said Macron’s concerns were baseless as China has been seeking a peaceful rise to a […]
5, May 2018
Southern Cameroons in Crisis: Barrister Tambe Tiku speaks of the academic Lilliput running the Buea Council 0
Following a Fako High Court ruling, restraining the University of Buea, UB, from revoking the Degrees awarded Buea Mayor, Patrick Ekema Esunge, the Southwest Regional Secretary of the National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms, Christopher Tambe Tiku, (seen here with our senior political man Soter Tarh Agbaw-Ebai) has asserted to The Post newspaper that […]
5, May 2018
Air France-KLM boss resigns over labor dispute 0
Air France-KLM Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jean-Marc Janaillac has offered to resign after employees rejected a pay raise. The 65-year-old CEO announced his resignation on Friday making good on an earlier promise to step down if he failed to end the weeks-long strikes. Staff and management at the flagship carrier have been locked in a […]
4, May 2018
Trump says will be interviewed in Russia probe if ‘treated fairly’ 0
US President Donald Trump said Friday that he is willing to be interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the Russia meddling probe, but only if he gets fair treatment. “I would love to speak, but I have to find that we’re going to be treated fairly,” Trump told reporters. “I would love to speak […]
4, May 2018
Kenya: Torrential rains cause deadly floods, 112 dead, hundreds displaced 0
Flooding across Kenya triggered by weeks of torrential rain has left 112 people dead and displaced hundreds of thousands of others, the Red Cross said Friday. Kenya Red Cross Secretary General Abbas Gullet made an appeal for $5 million (four million euros) to help those affected in 32 counties. Since early March, “112 people have […]
4, May 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Granting Southern Cameroons independence one day at a time 0
For close to two years, Cameroon has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Cameroon, once touted as an oasis of peace in a desert of chaos, has finally joined the chaos that has characterized life in countries bordering the sub-region’s economic power. A crisis that started as simple protests by lawyers, teachers […]
4, May 2018
French Cameroun gov’t blocking humanitarian aid to fleeing Southern Cameroonians 0
The Cameroon government has reportedly banned the Catholic Church from extending humanitarian aid to persons fleeing the security crisis in the restive Anglophone regions. According to a journalists with Equinoxe TV, a renown priest had been questioned for distributing foodstuff to people stranded by the ongoing crisis. “I am reliably informed that church leaders have […]
6, May 2018
Spain: Catalan separatists again back fugitive leader for president 0
by soter • Europe, Headline News, Politics
Separatists in Spain’s Catalonia region say they will re-nominate self-professed, fugitive leader Carles Puigdemont to head their regional government, a move that would be unacceptable to Madrid. In October 2017, Catalonia’s pro-independence leaders held a referendum that had been banned by Spain’s central government and declared illegal by the country’s Constitutional Court. Organizers said 90 percent of voters […]