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27, August 2016
Italy: Funeral mass held for victims of the recent earthquake 0
Italians held a mass funeral Saturday for the victims of the recent earthquake in the central part of the country whose death toll has reached 290. The country observed a national day of mourning Saturday. Italy’s civil protection agency said in a statement that the tally rose to 230 confirmed deaths in Amatrice, the worst hit […]
27, August 2016
Yaounde: Secondary and Basic Education officials discussing the new academic year 0
Officials of the Central and Decentralized services of the Ministry of Secondary and Basic Education are meeting in Yaounde to map the way forward for the new school year. The highly placed civil servants taking part in the conclave which opened on the 26th of August 2016 included Pedagogic Inspectors, Regional Delegates and heads of […]
27, August 2016
Cameroon arrest Gendarmerie Captain leading a criminal gang in the Far North region 0
Captain Hamadjam Hamadjam, commander of the gendarmerie company post in the Mayo-Tsanaga division was relieved of his duties and arrested late on Wednesday the 25th of August in an operation staged by the military high command of the Far North legion. Captain Hamadjam is currently being held at the Maroua Central Prison. A journalist with […]
26, August 2016
Bolivia: Interior Minister beaten to death 0
Bolivian Interior Minister Rodolfo Illanes has been beaten to death by striking mine workers after being kidnapped, the government says. Interior Minister Carlos Romero told a press conference that his 56-year-old deputy was abducted after he went to talk to the protesting miners in Panduro, around 160 km from the administrative capital, La Paz. Senior government […]
26, August 2016
Hillary Clinton has maintained a strong lead over Trump 0
US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has maintained a double-digit lead over her Republican rival, Donald Trump, in the run-up to the November election in a new national poll.The Quinnipiac University poll, released on Thursday, shows the former secretary of state has 51 percent of the votes as compared to the New York billionaire having […]
25, August 2016
Cameroon in Sydney 2000: CPDM in Rio 2016 0
Following the poor performance of Team Cameroon in the Rio Olympic Games 2016, Jeune Afrique International magazine recently invoked the memories of the Olympic Games in Sydney 2000 which saw Cameroon winning an Olympic Gold Medal in football. While Cameroon went unnoticed in Rio, Jeune Afrique successfully traced the 16 Cameroon football legends of Sydney […]
25, August 2016
Biya spends billions of FCFA hiring VIP aircrafts 1
President Paul Biya for several years has traveled on hired planes paid by the Cameroonian tax payer. He left Yaounde on Wednesday for a “short stay” in Europe using a lease transaction VIP aircraft that reportedly cost a fortune. The state of Cameroon has paid a whopping sum for the hiring of air crafts for […]
25, August 2016
UNICEF says 49,000 Nigerian children may die to malnutrition 0
The UN children’s fund (UNICEF) says some 49,000 Nigerian children could die of malnutrition in the country’s troubled northeast this year if they are not provided with humanitarian aid. According to a report published by UNICEF on Thursday, some 475,000 children around the Lake of Chad face “sever acute malnutrition” due to drought and the seven-year militancy […]
25, August 2016
Italy: Death toll from powerful earthquake reached 247 0
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that devastated parts of central Italy has reached 247 as rescue and search operations are underway to find possible survivors. On Thursday, Italy’s civil protection agency said a tally by local officials showed that 190 people were killed Rieti Province and 57 in the province of Ascoli Piceno. According to […]
27, August 2016
UK: Pedestrian bridge collapsed on M20 in Kent 0
by soter • Breaking News, Europe, Headline News, News
A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs after a pedestrian bridge collapsed on the M20 in Kent. It happened between junctions 3 and 4, on the London-bound carriageway northwest of Maidstone. The M20 is the main route to the Port of Dover and the Channel Tunnel. The stretch of road where the accident happened was […]