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11, March 2018
Genocide in Southern Cameroons: Nigerian activists ask African Union to suspend Cameroum 0
Nigerian activists on Sunday called on the African Union to suspend Cameroon over the alleged torture of political prisoners. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) said it had already sent an open letter to the African Union Chairperson and President of Rwanda Paul Kagame. The organization urged him to “urgently call an Extraordinary Session […]
11, March 2018
Indomitable Lions: Yaounde advertise head coach post and appoint Belinga on interim basis 0
The vacant Cameroon head coach’s job has been advertised by the Normalisation Committee running Cameroon’s football federation (Fecafoot). The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations champions are seeking to fill the role made vacant when Hugo Broos departed at the end of his contract last month. Fecafoot wants a top foreign or local coach who has a […]
11, March 2018
France’s Macron bashes Trump for withdrawing from climate deal 0
French President Emmanuel Macron has expressed regret over a decision by United States under President Donald Trump to pull out of a major international agreement on climate preservation. While in India, Macron hailed activism by groups like “solar mamas” in protection of the environment despite Trump’s move last June to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Accords, […]
11, March 2018
Hundreds of refugees rescued at sea between Libya, Italy 0
Rescue efforts have saved several hundred asylum seekers who had risked possible death by trying to make the perilous journey from Africa to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea in unseaworthy vessels. The Libyan navy announced on Saturday that it had rescued 252 Europe-bound asylum seekers off the country’s western coast. “We were alerted… to the […]
11, March 2018
US Secretary of State cancels Saturday activities in Kenya due to low health 0
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who is on a mini tour of Africa cancelled his Saturday program in Nairobi because he is “not feeling well.” He is will resume his normal visit on Sunday, the U.S. delegation announced. “The secretary does not feel well after two long days of working on important issues like […]
11, March 2018
Former US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa says Cameroon must return to federal system abolished under Ahidjo 0
As the security and social crisis in Cameroon’s Anglophone region rages, a former United States ambassador is advocating a return to federalism as the only viable solution. Herman Cohen, a former assistant Secretary of State for Africa says the government must go back for the original federal system that was in his view ‘illegally abolished’ […]
10, March 2018
‘Trump sent personal letter to invite Putin to Miss Universe pageant in 2013’ 0
US President Donald Trump had sent a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin inviting him to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, a new report says. Citing sources familiar with the content of the letter, The Washington Post reported that Trump, who at the time owned the Miss Universe pageant, was so eager to have […]
10, March 2018
If Cameroon becomes another Rwanda, we all pay the price 0
When the international community ignores ethnic cleansing, it often ends up with a massive bill. If history teaches us anything about averting our eyes from repressive regimes it is that, sooner or later, we must fund refugee camps, send peacekeepers, host negotiations, accommodate thousands of migrants seeking asylum, and then help rebuild shattered nations. Never […]
10, March 2018
“Better few viable banks than dozen failing banks” Tanzania President 0
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has ordered the country’s central bank not to bail out any struggling banks as East Africa’s third-largest economy tries to control rising bad debts in the sector. A spike in non-performing loans over the past two years has hit local bank profits and choked off new lending to the private sector, […]
12, March 2018
Russia: Putin ordered hijacked plane to be downed in 2014 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a hijacked passenger plane reported to be targeting the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi to be shot down. “I was told: a plane en route from Ukraine to Istanbul was seized, captors demand landing in Sochi,” the Russian president said in a documentary titled “Putin” aired on Sunday. In the […]