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22, March 2018
44 African states sign free trade area pact 0
Forty-four African countries have signed an agreement establishing a free trade area seen as vital to the continent’s economic development, the head of the African Union said Wednesday. The creation of a free trade area — billed as the world’s largest in terms of participating countries — comes after two years of negotiations, and is […]
22, March 2018
France: Ex-leader Sarkozy charged over Libyan money claims 0
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was handed preliminary charges Wednesday over allegations he accepted millions of euros in illegal campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. A judicial official told The Associated Press that investigating judges overseeing the probe gave the ex-president charges of illegally funding his successful 2007 campaign, passive corruption and […]
22, March 2018
France’s Sarkozy faces second day of questioning in Gaddafi funds case 0
Judges in France placed former French president Nicolas Sarkozy under formal investigation on Wednesday over allegations of illegal campaign financing, a judicial source said. Sarkozy was released from under judicial supervision after two days of questioning over allegations that his 2007 election campaign received funding from the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the source said. […]
22, March 2018
Ambazonia Crisis: Three hostages freed 0
The Cameroonian army has released three hostages in the South West of the country. The three include a Tunisian and two Cameroonians ,employees of a road construction company abducted by English-speaking separatists on March 15. The operation which led to the death of a Tunisian engineer,also led to four attackers neutralized. Issa Tchiroma is Minister […]
21, March 2018
Recovering Southern Cameroons stolen wealth must NOT be equated with ransom 0
Cameroon Concord News has read the press release issued by the Communication Secretary of the Interim Government Chris Anu on the recent self-defense operations by the Ambazonia self-defense forces in Lebialem and Meme Counties of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. Cameroon Concord News Group agrees with key parts of his press release but disagrees with […]
21, March 2018
Boko Haram frees 100 Nigerian girls but issues warning 0
Nigeria’s homegrown Boko Haram Takfiri terror group has surprisingly returned more than a 100 of 110 girls it had abducted from the country’s northeast last month, but has served the parents with a stern warning. The terrorists rolled into the town of Dapchi on Wednesday, dropping some of the abductees they had spirited away from […]
21, March 2018
Biya-Buhari Criminal Accord: Orji Uzor Kalu N3.2bn Fraud Witness Flee To Cameroon 0
Mr Akpan Udoh, an accountant in the Abia Government House, who was scheduled to testify in the alleged N3.2 billion fraud trial of the former Abia Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, has relocated to Cameroon. The counsel to the prosecution told a Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday that Udoh is listed as a witness […]
21, March 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Tunisian engineer killed by kidnappers 0
A Tunisian engineer has been killed by his kidnappers in southwest Cameroon, but three of his colleagues have been rescued, the government said. The body of Khaled Tinsa was recovered on Monday during a rescue operation that freed another Tunisian engineer and two Cameroonian technicians, government spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary said. He did not say […]
21, March 2018
Congo-Brazzaville: Pool rebels to be disarmed in April, $70m needed to resettle 114,000 people 0
Negotiations between the government of the Republic of Congo and rebels in the Pool region have reached a critical agreement that will see a disarmament process take off at the beginning of April. The Joint Ad Hoc Commission of the ceasefire and cessation of hostilities agreement in the Pool held a meeting on Tuesday in […]
22, March 2018
Federal Republic of Ambazonia: French Cameroun’s banning and burning of bikes is a crazy strategy 0
by soter • Africa, Headline News, Politics
The policy of burning commercial bikes in villages and banning same in towns and enclave communities is clearly a very primitive and hopeless approach to restore peace and security. For one thing, it provokes anger and a thirst for vengeance in young people in restive areas in Southern Cameroons. By stopping the circulation commercial bikes […]