Layouts
20, December 2017
Southern Cameroons Crisis: Commonwealth Secretary General meets Biya 0
On the second day of her official visit to Cameroon, the Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland was received in audience by the French Cameroun dictator, Paul BIYA at the so-called Unity Palace on Tuesday, 19 December 2017. Nothing has filtered from their conversation but some sources have said it was cordial. Mr. Biya and his […]
19, December 2017
Cameroon Villages Burned After Separatist Attacks 0
Several villages are said to have been set ablaze in Cameroon’s English speaking southwestern town of Mamfe after armed separatists attacked military installations and killed four soldiers. The Cameroon government says it has seized three of the armed separatists’ training camps. Cameroon communication minister and government spokesperson Issa Tchiroma says for the past two weeks, […]
19, December 2017
Scuffles in Uganda parliament over ‘life presidency’ 0
Scuffles erupted in Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday over the presence of unidentified soldiers in the building as lawmakers debate a bill that could extend the president’s time in office. Amid the chaos, the speaker adjourned proceedings to investigate the alleged presence of soldiers in prayer sanctuaries inside the building. The bill under debate seeks to […]
19, December 2017
UK Labour Party leader says he will be Prime Minister next year 0
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says he is likely to replace Theresa May as the country’s new prime minister sometime in the next 12 months. In an interview with Grazia magazine published Monday, Corbyn said he expected another general election in 2018, projecting himself as the favorite. “I will probably win. I’m ready to […]
19, December 2017
The Kembong Situation Report: 6 soldiers killed, 6 riffles seized, Army Hilux battered 0
The Cameroon government spokesman and Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary has reacted to the invasion of Kembong village by militants loyal to the Southern Cameroons struggle and reportedly confirmed that 4 gendarmerie officers lost their lives. Report had it that Ambazonian militia stormed the gendarme post in Kembong village in Eyumojock Sub Division and […]
19, December 2017
Southern Cameroons: When Independence is worse than Colonization 0
No other territory in history has been so exploited and left to gnash its teeth in psychological and physical agony as Southern Cameroonsfollowing its recolonizationby French Cameroun. From 1953, Southern Cameroons was, to all intents and purposes, a country of its own, with almost all the appurtenances of a nation state, including self-governance, its own […]
19, December 2017
Southern Cameroons militants Kill 4 Gendarmes as Anglophone Crisis Worsens 0
Militants seeking independence for Cameroon’s English-speaking regions killed four gendarmes on Monday, the government said, as disputes with the Francophone-dominated government degenerate into open warfare. Several separatists were killed by security forces in ensuing clashes, the government spokesman said. Repression by President Paul Biya’s government against what began as peaceful protests a year ago by […]
19, December 2017
Albania: Opposition MPs throw smoke bombs in parliament 0
Opposition lawmakers in Albania have thrown smoke bombs inside parliament to disrupt a session for the appointment of an interim prosecutor general, which they said was unconstitutional. Albanian opposition MPs on Monday threw smoke grenades into the parliament chamber to protest the election of Arta Marku with 69 votes out of 76 by the ruling […]
18, December 2017
The Ignored War: Biya and the Dadi Village Genocide 0
Women and children have disappeared in large numbers as the entire Dadi village was wiped out by the Francophone dominated Cameroon government armed forces. It was a larger scale campaign that involved three military helicopters and three task forces that swept into the village of Dadi immediately after President Biya declared war on the Anglophone […]
20, December 2017
UN urges return of 6 aid workers in S. Sudan 0
by soter • Breaking News, Headline News, News, World
The United Nations’ humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan called Tuesday for the “swift and safe” return of six aid workers who have disappeared in the northwest of the country. The coordinator, Alain Noudehou, said in a statement that one international and five national aid workers had gone missing on Sunday while travelling between the towns […]