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8, January 2018
64 refugees feared dead in Mediterranean boat sinking 0
As many as 64 refugees are feared dead after a traffickers’ overcrowded rubber dinghy from Libya started sinking in the Mediterranean Sea, officials said Monday. The Italian coast guard rescued 86 people from the boat hours after it started sinking Saturday morning due to a puncture. Specially trained rescue divers leapt into the water to […]
8, January 2018
Nigeria denies detaining Ambazonian leader 0
A Nigerian intelligence official on Sunday denied arresting Cameroon separatists in Abuja, after a rebel movement said its top leaders had been “abducted by gunmen”. Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, the president of the anglophone separatist movement in Cameroon, was arrested during a meeting on Friday, January 5, in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja, according to a statement […]
8, January 2018
Ambazonia through the “camera’s eye” 0
It is hard to tell which Ambazonian insiders gave the Nigerian secret police the tip to capture the IG. What is vital now is whether this abduction and interrogation will develop into an advantage for the IG or if the IG will succeed to convince Nigerian factions that a support of Ambazonian self-defense would be […]
8, January 2018
BBC’s Carrie Gracie resigns over ‘secretive and illegal’ pay culture 0
One of the BBC’s most senior journalists has resigned from her post, accusing the British broadcaster of having a “secretive and illegal” pay structure. “With great regret, I have left my post as China Editor to speak out publicly on a crisis of trust at the BBC,” Carrie Gracie wrote in an open letter. Gracie, […]
8, January 2018
Nigeria evacuating citizens from Libya amid reports of abuses against refugees 0
Nigeria has started evacuating thousands of its citizens trapped in Libya amid reports of rampant abuses against Europe-bound refugees in the North African state. Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama told reporters during a visit to Tripoli on Saturday that he expected an estimated 5,500 Nigerian citizens to be repatriated as part of the process, but […]
7, January 2018
Breaking: Emergency meeting of the African Bar is ongoing on the arrest of Sisiku Ayuk Tabe 0
Cameroon Concord News has been informed that an emergency meeting of the African Bar is ongoing on the arrest of the Interim Head of State of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and 9 members of his cabinet in Abuja, Nigeria. Sources within the African Bar say there are two members among those arrested namely Elias […]
7, January 2018
UK: Prime Minister May to reshuffle cabinet on Monday 0
British Prime Minister Theresa May will conduct a Cabinet reshuffle on Monday amid reports that senior ministers are set to be axed. The reshuffle aims to make May’s government more diverse and youthful in addition to bringing in more women. She has been forced to make changes following two resignations and one sacking. Sir Michael […]
7, January 2018
Abuja: Ambazonia leader to be released soon 0
The Interim Head of State of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia was reportedly arrested by Nigeria secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS). The Leader of the Indigenous People of British Southern Cameroons was arrested in Abuja including 7 members of his cabinet. Cameroon Intelligence Report sources in the Nigerian capital say the 9 […]
7, January 2018
Ambazonia: Interim Head of State taken into custody in Nigeria 0
A leading member of a separatist movement in Cameroon has been taken into custody in the capital of neighboring Nigeria with his aides, sources and secessionists said on Saturday. The once-fringe Anglophone movement in majority Francophone Cameroon has gathered pace in the last few months following a military crackdown on protests. It represents the gravest […]
8, January 2018
Yaounde’s extradition request: “Nigeria is not Equatorial Guinea” 0
by soter • Headline News, News, World
The Federal Republic of Nigeria will not consider the extradition of the Interim President of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia including nine of his top aides, whom the 84 year old Cameroonian dictator, Paul Biya has accused of destabilising La Republique du Cameroun, the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Cameroon Concord News Group, Soter Tarh […]