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21, February 2018
US: Lawyer pleads guilty to lying in Robert Mueller’s Russia probe 0
A former lawyer at a powerful New York-based law firm pleads guilty to lying to Special Counsel Robert Mueller who is probing the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia. Alex van der Zwaan was charged on February 16 with “willfully and knowingly making materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to both the special counsel’s office and […]
21, February 2018
FIFA President Gianni Infantino is in Lagos 0
FIFA President Gianni Infantino is in Lagos, Nigeria for a summit of the world football governing body. Infantino arrived in Lagos on Monday and told reporters that the summit is a democratic system where issues concerning football are discussed among stakeholders. The FIFA FIFA Summit is an initiative of Infantino to give a voice to […]
21, February 2018
Libya rescues 441 refugees off western coast 0
Libya’s coastguard rescued 441 refugees in two separate operations as their boats drifted off the western coast, the navy and a doctor said on Tuesday. Thirty-five women and 16 children were among 324 illegal refugees rescued in one of the operations on Monday with help from a fishing boat, a navy statement said. The refugees, […]
20, February 2018
Malawi: Cholera outbreak kills nine 0
A cholera outbreak in Malawi described as “very difficult to contain” has claimed nine lives and affected a total of 541 people nationwide, health officials said on Tuesday. The outbreak began in November near the landlocked southern African nation’s northern border with Tanzania and has since spread to other regions of the country. UNICEF’s representative […]
20, February 2018
Understanding the Southern Cameroons Struggle 0
Separatists in Cameroon’s restive English-speaking regions have faced a violent crackdown since declaring the creation of “Ambazonia”, a self-proclaimed republic independent from the majority French-speaking country. The violence has helped fuel support for a growing separatist movement, including armed groups, who in turn have carried out a string of attacks on police and the military. […]
20, February 2018
Boko Haram attacks village in Nigeria, fails to abduct girls 0
Takfiri Boko Haram militants have attacked a village in northeast Nigeria, unsuccessfully attempting to kidnap girls at a boarding school there. Eyewitnesses said on Monday that a convoy of pickup trucks belonging to Boko Haram militants descended on Dapchi Village in the Bursari area of Yobe State around 6 pm (1700 GMT). “When they stormed […]
20, February 2018
Ambazonia Crisis: Medical Doctor shot in Bamenda 0
A Southern Cameroons physician in Bamenda the chief city in the North of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia, Dr Veh Dinga-Nyoh of PMI Nkwen , was shot on the back this morning on her way to work by troops loyal to the Biya regime. Giving an account of the incident to our London editorial office, […]
20, February 2018
Southern Cameroons Crisis: The Akwaya Situation Report 0
A slow-moving ground offensive, the assault on Akwaya by French Cameroun government forces threatens to become a protracted standoff, deepening an already dire humanitarian situation. It could also prove costly for the Biya regime, diplomatically and militarily. So far, nearly 250 civilians in Akwaya, according to a sister publication Cameroon Intelligence Report have been killed. […]
20, February 2018
17 killed in garbage dump collapse in Mozambique 0
At least 17 people have been killed and several others injured in Mozambique’s capital when a 15-meter pile of garbage collapsed due to heavy rain and buried seven houses, officials say. The collapse happened at around 3 a.m. (0100 GMT) in the impoverished Hulene neighborhood, which is around 10 kilometers from the center of Maputo. […]
21, February 2018
Deal Signed To Extend French Cameroun – Chad Railway Network 0
by soter • Africa, Business, Headline News
The Governments of Cameroon and Chad have signed an aide-memoire with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to extend the railway network linking Ngaoundere in Cameroon and Djamena in Chad. The signing ceremony was chaired by Cameroon’s Minister of Transport, Edgar Alain Mebe Ngo’o and conducted in the presence of the Director General of Cooperation and […]