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23, October 2017
Nigeria: 14 killed after three bombers blow up explosives 0
A triple bomb attack in northeastern Nigeria has left 14 people dead and more than a dozen others injured, authorities say. The casualties occurred on Sunday evening, when three female bombers detonated their explosives in the northeastern city of Maiduguri. “So far, we have 14 people killed and 18 injured in the triple suicide bombings […]
23, October 2017
Disgusting and Disgraceful: 2 Francophone Ministers sleep rough at Nsimalen airport waiting for Biya 0
The French Cameroun dictator who left Yaoundé Thursday, September 14, 2017, finally returned to the nation’s capital on Saturday, October 21, 2017. Paul Biya spent 36 days abroad. Between September the 17th and September the 24th, Biya was seen in New York in the United States taking part in the 72nd regular session of the […]
23, October 2017
Cameroon: Dangote cement sold 938 kt, indicating an increase of 16.4 0
Latest performance figures show that Dangote Cement continues to maintain its large share of Nigeria’s domestic cement market, accounting for 65 percent of the Nigerian market volume, while other African plants’ volumes went up by 7.5 percent to 7.0 mta. These results are coming as the company’s board announced changes to the leadership of the […]
22, October 2017
WHO removes Mugabe as UN goodwill envoy to Africa 0
The World Health Organization (WHO) has overturned it controversial decision, made quite recently, in appointing Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe as its “goodwill ambassador” to Africa following international outrage. The director-general of the United Nations organization, Tedros Adhanom, made the announcement on Sunday, four days after he appointed the 93-year-old Zimbabwean president at a high-level meeting […]
22, October 2017
La Republique: Police halt opposition demo in solidarity with Southern Cameroonians 0
Cameroonian security forces have stopped a demonstration in the port city of Douala on Saturday organised by the main opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF) in solidarity with the embittered Anglophone regions. The planned demonstration led by Littoral regional SDF Chairman and activist Jean-Michel Nintcheu was banned by the authorities on Thursday “to prevent violence and […]
22, October 2017
Chaos at Ekok-Mfum border as Southern Cameroons demand autonomy 0
• As Discrimination Stirs Discontent • Protest Against Political, Economic Discrimination Fuelling Clamp Down • Country Heading Towards Pogrom Few days before October 1, 2017, the atmosphere was charged on the two campuses of University of Bamenda and University of Buea. On the orders of President Paul Biya, troops were drafted from the Francophone region to […]
22, October 2017
World Health Organisation ‘rethinking’ decision on President Mugabe 0
The World Health Organization (WHO) will be reconsidering a decision to name Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe “a goodwill ambassador” after facing criticism. The director-general of the United Nations’ health agency, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on Twitter on Saturday that he understood the “concerns” and that he was “rethinking.” “I’m listening. I hear your concerns. Rethinking […]
21, October 2017
Biya goes home to bid farewell to friends and family 0
The Republic of Cameroon’s President, Paul Biya, on October 21 landed at the country’s main international airport in Yaounde where he was welcomed by his entire government and many ruling party supporters. He received in audience the eighty-three-year-old senate president, Marcel Nyat Njifenji, who is a long-time friend of the ailing president and a stalwart […]
21, October 2017
Catalan parliament resists Madrid pressure, vows to defend sovereignty 0
The parliament in Catalonia has harshly criticized the Spanish government for its intentions to take over the regional powers, saying it would do its utmost to defend sovereignty of the independence-seeking territory. Carme Forcadell, who serves as the speaker of the parliament, said on Saturday that the chamber would not allow Spanish Prime Minister Mariano […]
24, October 2017
Battle For Southern Cameroons: La Republique boost up strategies of digital communication 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
Digital applications which will enable decentralised services of the Ministry of Communication provide the central service with adequate information within the shortest possible space has been presented in Yaounde. The initiative was presented by the Minister of Communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakary, on October 20, 2017 in a meeting with the Regional Delegates of Communication. Speaking […]