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15, December 2017
Netherlands: Two killed in double stabbing attacks 0
At least two people have been killed and several others injured in two stabbing attacks in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht, police say. The police said in a statement that two stabbing attacks had been carried out on Thursday night a few hundred meters away from each other in a residential neighborhood in northern […]
14, December 2017
Somalia: Bomb attack kills 17 at Mogadishu police academy 0
The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militant group has launched a bombing attack on a police training camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, killing at least 17 officers and injuring 20 others. The casualties took place on Thursday, when an assailant infiltrated the General Kahiye Police Training Academy during an early morning parade and detonated the explosives strapped around […]
14, December 2017
Anglophones Flee to Nigeria as Crackdown Grows 0
When soldiers burst into her village in southwest Cameroon last month with guns blazing, small farmer Eta Quinta, 32, raced into the forest with three of her children. “I found a canoe and I used it to cross over with my kids, not knowing where my husband and my (other) two kids are,” she told […]
14, December 2017
Anglophone Crisis: Helicopters launch attack on Egbekaw Village in Manyu 0
4 military helicopters have attacked civilian positions in Egbekaw village in Mamfe town in what the Cameroonian army calls a “terrorist raid” on Southern Cameroons militants. Grenades were dropped on Egbekaw and 15 shots fired at some residence today, Cameroon Concord News reporter said. The helicopters flew from a military base located in Besongabang to […]
14, December 2017
Biya regime extends detention for writer Patrice Nganang 0
Cameroonian author Patrice Nganang has had his custody extended by 48 hours by the authorities, his lawyer said on Tuesday, nearly a week after his arrest for publishing an article critical of the country’s president. “His detention was extended (Monday) for 48 hours by the state prosecutor,” lawyer Emmanuel Simh told AFP, adding that Nganang […]
14, December 2017
US: Kentucky lawmaker accused of sexually molesting teen commits suicide 0
Dan Johnson, a Republican state lawmaker in Kentucky who has refused to resign after allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl in his church, has apparently killed himself. Johnson fatally shot himself on a bridge in a secluded area of Louisville in Mount Washington, Kentucky, on Wednesday night, Bullitt County sheriff Donnie Tinnell said. […]
14, December 2017
Veto on Brexit? British government loses key vote after Tory rebellion 0
The government of British Prime Minster Theresa May has suffered a fresh blow as lawmakers voted to force changes in London’s Brexit plans, giving Parliament a legal guarantee of a vote on the final Brexit deal struck with Brussels. May was narrowly defeated in a key vote on its Brexit bill after a rebellion by […]
14, December 2017
Yaounde closes border with Nigeria in the North 0
Cameroon has closed its border with Nigeria in the north, after a series of attacks by Boko Haram militants on Cameroonian ranchers. The closure is meant to protect the ranchers’ cattle, but it is hurting the ranchers’ business. Hundreds of ranchers have brought their cattle and livestock to the Bogo market on Cameroon’s northern border […]
13, December 2017
Burundi’s president to extend rule until 2034 0
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has launched a campaign to promote a referendum to change the constitution that could extend his rule over the landlocked East African country until 2034. Addressing a crowd of thousands of farmers in the central district of Gitega on Tuesday, Nkurunziza threatened those who sought to undermine the referendum slated for […]
15, December 2017
Yaounde facing strong response from Southern Cameroons militants 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The Cameroonian army is facing a strong response from armed Southern Cameroons militants following what is being described as an invasion of the Manyu State in the Federal Republic of Ambazonia and continues military incursion is doomed to fail, according to our South West bureau chief who is currently monitoring the situation in Mamfe. “Any […]