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24, March 2018
War in Lebialem County: Yaounde would neither confirm nor deny 0
A government official was killed and a district administrator wounded on Thursday in an ambush blamed on anglophone separatists in western Cameroon, a human rights activist said. The attack hit a convoy carrying a government official responsible for land ownership issues in part of the Southwest, who was killed. The area’s prefect survived the attack […]
23, March 2018
Beijing: China’s top legislator meets Biya 0
China’s top legislator Li Zhanshu met with Cameroonian President Paul Biya on Friday. Li, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), said Chinese President Xi Jinping held fruitful talks with Biya on Thursday and they made top-level designs for the development of bilateral relations in the future. Li said China’s NPC […]
23, March 2018
Cameroon: Playing games with our minds 0
2018 is an election year and it appears all tricks are acceptable, especially when there are no real economic and financial results that can endear a government to its people. True to its philosophy, the CPDM government yesterday March 22 staged a new show, using Vision 4, a local TV channel, to announce that the […]
23, March 2018
UN says Libya still living with killings, torture, slave markets 0
A UN rights report sheds light on the plight of Libyans seven years after a NATO-led military intervention there, saying rival armed groups in the North African state continue to kill and torture civilians with impunity, while Europe-bound refugees are still being bought and sold in “open slave markets.” In a report to the Human […]
23, March 2018
EU recalls envoy to Moscow, member states expelling Russian diplomats 0
The EU recalls its envoy to Russia over a nerve agent attack on British soil as several members of the bloc consider expelling Russian diplomats. EU leaders issued a statement in Brussels Thursday, saying it is “highly likely Russia is responsible” for poisoning Soviet-era spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in a British town earlier this […]
23, March 2018
French Cameroun: Three public figures arrested in Biya’s controversial ‘Operation Epervier’ 0
Three Cameroonian public figures, including a former minister, were jailed in Yaoundé for alleged financial malpractice in connection with the anti-corruption operation “Epervier”, a judicial source told AFP on Thursday. Louis Max Ohandja, former secretary of state to the Minister of Public Works, in charge of roads, Jean William Sollo, former boss of a public corporation and […]
23, March 2018
Mozambique to receive first ever black female UK ambassador 0
Mozambique will be the host of the United Kingdom’s first ever female ambassador. NneNne Iwuji-Eme, who has spent 16 years in the British Foreign Office, will take up her role as British high commissioner to Mozambique in July, taking over from Joanna Kuenssberg. The history making career diplomat told British newspaper, The Guardian, that her […]
22, March 2018
Southern Cameroons War: Cho Ayaba claims of responsibility are getting more dubious 0
There’s good reason to be skeptical of the evidence-free claim from the so-called Ambazonia Defense Force headed by Cho Ayaba on the mass shooting in the Lebialem County and in Bechati. If the Southern Cameroons freedom fighters were under the supervision of the Ambazonia Defense Force as Cho Ayaba and his group claims, no one […]
22, March 2018
UN says Southern Cameroonians pour into Nigeria, stretching scant resources 0
As more and more Anglophone Cameroonians flee a violent crackdown in the region and seek asylum in Nigeria, the United Nations refugee agency warned on Tuesday without more funding and assistance, their situation and that of the Nigerian communities hosting them, will become even more desperate. “Anglophone Cameroonians began fleeing violence in October 2017 and […]
24, March 2018
Thousands to take part in Washington’s ‘March for Our Lives’ rally 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Hundreds of thousands of protesters are getting ready for a massive anti-gun rally in Washington, as calls grow for tighter gun control measures following a wave of mass shootings in the United States. The “March for Our Lives” event, set to take place on Saturday, has been organized by survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High […]