Layouts
21, March 2018
Amnesty says Nigerian military was warned before Boko Haram abduction of Dapchi girls 0
Nigeria’s military was on Tuesday accused of ignoring repeated warnings about the movements of Boko Haram fighters before they kidnapped 110 schoolgirls in the country’s restive northeast. The students, the youngest of whom is aged just 10, were seized from the town of Dapchi, Yobe state, on February 19 in virtually identical circumstances to those […]
20, March 2018
UN says Southern Cameroonians in Nigeria pass 20,000 mark 0
The number of Anglophone Cameroonians seeking asylum in Nigeria has doubled since mid-January. Without urgent international support, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warns that their struggle for survival will be increasingly desperate. Anglophone Cameroonians began fleeing violence in October 2017 and continue to pour into Nigeria’s Cross River, Taraba, Benue and Akwa-Ibom states. In total, […]
20, March 2018
CAF: Issa Hayatou, Amrani trial postponed to April 16 0
The trial of former CAF president Issa Hayatou and former secretary-general Hicham El Amrani was on Monday postponed by Egypt’s Economic Misdemeanors Court to April 16. The two are accused of violating local anti-monopoly rules, after they signed a contract with a French company Lagardère Sports on the management of media rights of African football. The Egyptian […]
20, March 2018
French Cameroun: Ex-minister reportedly goes missing 0
Basile Atangana Kouna, former minister of Water and Energy sacked from the government on March 2, has not been seen at his home ever since the Yaoundé regime issued an order preventing him from leaving the country. The former baron of the ruling CPDM crime syndicate was expected at the Yaoundé Special Criminal Court yesterday, […]
20, March 2018
Corruption in France: Ex-French President Sarkozy detained over Gaddafi-linked campaign cash 0
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was being held in police custody on Tuesday for questioning by magistrates looking into allegations of Libyan funding for his 2007 election campaign, an official in the French judiciary said. A lawyer for Sarkozy could not be reached immediately for comment. France opened a judicial inquiry in 2013 into allegations […]
20, March 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: GCE Board Chairman freed after being held captive in Alou 0
Ambazonian freedom fighters have released a senior official of the Ministry of Secondary Education recently held in protective custody. The Francophone governor of the South-West region, Okala Bilai confirmed the gesture and said Prof. Ivo Leke Tambo, a hostage and chairman of the GCE Board, the body responsible for English-language examinations has now gained his […]
20, March 2018
Moscow: Putin meets with presidential candidates after landslide victory 0
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his rival presidential candidates in Moscow on Monday, after preliminary results suggested he had secured a landslide victory in the Russian presidential election. He expressed his hope that in the future all of the candidates could unite their efforts and work for the benefit of Russia. The Russian president […]
20, March 2018
African presidents congratulate China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Putin 0
African presidents including the heads of state of Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa and Nigeria congratulated the Chinese president upon his re-election, even as political analysts remarked that China’s life presidency project would be welcomed in many African countries. Xi Jinping unanimously re-elected by the country’s parliament on Saturday, which thereafter also voted to amend the […]
19, March 2018
Tunisian gov’t confirms Southern Cameroons armed group holding two of its citizens 0
An unidentified armed group in southwestern Cameroon has kidnapped two Tunisians working on a road construction project for a Tunisian company, the Tunisian government said on Monday. No group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping. The foreign ministry said it was in contact with the Cameroonian authorities over their release, giving no further details. REUTERS
21, March 2018
Southern Cameroons and the Abduction of Prof Leke Tambo: A Most Embarrassing Spectacle 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, Politics
Whether or not the government paid a ransom to secure his release from captivity is immaterial because the embarrassing video that went viral, of Prof. Ivo Leke Tambo, abducted by Ambazonia militants in their ongoing struggle for independence and resistance against President Biya’s Anglophone war of attrition was an unmistakable act of imbecility and a […]