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26, July 2017
USA: Senator recorded saying Trump ‘is crazy’ 0
US Senator Jack Reed was accidentally recorded telling Senator Susan Collins that President Donald Trump “is crazy” while the two lawmakers discussed the federal budget and Trump’s lack of familiarity with the details of governing. Someone sitting near Collins, a Republican from Maine, didn’t switch off a microphone near her at the end of a […]
26, July 2017
New wildfire in southern France prompts evacuation of thousands 0
At least 10,000 people were evacuated overnight after a new wildfire broke out in southern France, which was already battling massive blazes that have consumed swathes of forest, authorities said Wednesday. The new fire came a day after France asked for Europe’s help to tackle the flames already raging in the tinder dry south, including […]
26, July 2017
IMF may move headquarters to China 0
IMF chief Christine Lagarde says the International Monetary Fund may move its headquarters to Beijing in a decade if China and other big emerging markets continue to grow. In 10 years’ time, “we might not be sitting in Washington, DC. We’ll do it in our Beijing head office,” Lagarde said at a Center for Global […]
26, July 2017
Cameroon’s forest people pay price for country’s hydropower ambitions 0
Sitting in front of his mud house in Pangar, a forest village in Cameroon’s East region, Mokuine Anatole sharpens his machete in the early morning sunlight, ready for a day’s hunting. But the planned expedition won’t take place on the land around his village, as it used to. Just 2km away, the formerly fresh air […]
26, July 2017
Anglophone Crisis: Bishops reject government’s bilingual commission 0
Bishops from Cameroon’s English-speaking regions have said a new government commission to look at the rights of the country’s English-speaking minority is not adequate to resolve what has come to be known as “the Anglophone problem.” The National Commission for the Promotion of Bilingualism and Multi-culturalism was set up earlier in the year as part […]
25, July 2017
Super Eagles boss determined to leave before match against Cameroon 0
What has been a fine start for the Super Eagles boss has become a tense situation, but he needs to be given room to work. There was fear of the unknown when Gernot Rohr took over as head coach of the Super Eagles, replacing Sunday Oliseh last August, but a six-game unbeaten run, which included […]
25, July 2017
Turkish diplomacy ends in Persian Gulf without results 0
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has wrapped up a tour of Arab countries involved in a dispute but has failed to help bring the feuding sides closer to one another. Erdogan arrived in Qatar on Monday on the last leg of a tour that had also taken him to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. In Qatar, […]
25, July 2017
Will Donald Trump serve entire term as president? 0
Just a quarter of the US population is sure President Donald Trump will manage to stay in the White House by the end of his term, a new poll shows. Conducted by USA Today and iMediaEthics, the poll found that 27 percent of the people believe he “definitely will complete” the four-year term as the […]
24, July 2017
Bombers attack two camps in Nigeria, kill 8 0
A civilian self-defense group says at least eight people are dead after female bombers attacked two displaced persons camps in northeastern Nigeria’s main city. Spokesman Bello Danbatta tells The Associated Press that the attack started late Sunday night in Maiduguri and left another 15 people wounded. The Nigeria-based extremist group Boko Haram often targets the […]
27, July 2017
It’s a mess: Freight train carrying diesel fuel derails at Makondo 0
by soter • Cameroon, Headline News, News
The cargo train has derailed at Makondo, the chief location in the Ngwei district of the Sanaga-Maritime Division, Littoral region. Witnesses say several wagons loaded with diesel fuel found themselves in the ravine, after being detached from the locomotive that continued its movement. The cause of this new derailment remains to be determined. Scores of […]