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30, April 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Two gendarmes killed in the Northern Zone 0
Two Cameroonian gendarmes – paramilitary officials – were killed by suspected separatists in the North West region. Local media reported that some gendarmes had been abducted by unknown gunmen early on Saturday. Reports emerged later in the day that the lifeless bodies had been found in the Bali Nyonga area of the restive region riled […]
29, April 2018
Malawi’s ex-president Banda returns home after 4-year exile 0
Malawi’s former president, Joyce Banda, returned home on Saturday after four years of self-imposed exile, despite facing the threat of arrest over corruption allegations. Banda, 68, fled the country in 2014 when she lost power after being embroiled in the so-called Cashgate scandal, in which government officials siphoned off millions of dollars of public money. […]
29, April 2018
Trump threatens to shut down government over border wall 0
US President Donald Trump says he will shut down the federal government in September unless Congress provides more funding for a wall he has promised to build on the border with Mexico. “That wall has started, we have 1.6 billion (dollars),” Trump said on Saturday at a campaign rally in Washington, Michigan. “We come up again […]
29, April 2018
Suspected militants kill over 30 on Mali’s northeastern border with Niger 0
Suspected militants have reportedly killed over 30 people on Mali’s northeastern border with Niger amid escalation of violence in the country. According to the former Tuareg rebel group MSA and tribal leaders, the massacre occurred Friday, a day after another deadly attack in the same area that killed 12 people. “There have been 43 deaths […]
28, April 2018
Liberia’s former president receives Mo Ibrahim prize 0
Liberia’s former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has spoken publicly for the first time about what she intends to use her time for as she settles into life after presidency. The former Nobel Prize laureate and Africa’s first democratically elected woman president said she was going to continue with issues of women empowerment whiles advancing the […]
28, April 2018
Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis at the Crossroads 0
The Anglophones of Cameroon, 20 per cent of the population, feel marginalised. Their frustrations surfaced dramatically at the end of 2016 when a series of sectoral grievances morphed into political demands, leading to strikes and riots. The movement grew to the point where the government’s repressive approach was no longer sufficient to calm the situation, […]
28, April 2018
Kenya bans lesbian love story set to premiere at Cannes 0
Kenya has banned its first feature film to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, accusing it of having “clear intent to promote lesbianism in Kenya, contrary to the law”. Director Wanuri Kahiu said she is “incredibly sorry” to confirm the ban of “Rafiki” (or “Friend” in Kiswahili) by the Kenya Film Classification Board. Her film […]
28, April 2018
40 people fleeing violence drown off Congo-kinshasa 0
Forty civilians have drowned after their boats overturned on a storm-swollen river while they were fleeing fighting in the northwest Democratic Republic of the Congo. “As of Wednesday night, we recovered the bodies of 40 people” after their boats capsized, Jean Bakatoye, vice governor of South Ubangi province, said Friday. The number of the victims […]
27, April 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Long jail terms will not cut it! 0
The Southern Cameroons crisis has entered a new phase. After the failure of intimidation and attrition, the Yaounde government has decided to roll out a new strategy – making an example of Southern Cameroonians who are in the government’s jails in Yaounde. Ever since the crisis started more than a thousand Southern Cameroonians have been […]
30, April 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: 2 teachers killed in Muyuka and Kumba 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
A teacher was gunned down after armed assailants attacked a school in a strife-hit English speaking region of southwest Cameroon, national radio reported Saturday. Sophie Mandengue Maloba, a 42-year-old mother of three, died in the town of Muyuka when three armed men riding motorcycles fired gunshots as they sped through the town, the radio said. […]